Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster

CHAPTER II

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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