Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster
CHAPTER II
CATASTROPHE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Shock reaction 36
Hallucination 37
Primitive instincts 39
Crowd psychology 41
Phenomena of emotion 44
How men react when bereft completely 47
Post-catastrophic phenomena 48
Human nature in the absence of repression by conventionality, custom and law 49
Fatigue and the human will 52
The stimuli of heroism 55
Mutual aid 56