TY - GEN AU - Bagus, Philipp AU - Peña Ramos, José Antonio AU - Sánchez Bayón, Antonio PY - 2021 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/94415 AB - In this article, we aim to develop a political economy of mass hysteria. Using the background of COVID-19, we study past mass hysteria. Negative information which is spread through mass media repetitively can affect public health negatively in the... LA - eng PB - MDPI KW - Mass hysteria KW - Nocebo effects KW - Contagion KW - Mass media KW - Social media KW - Public health KW - Law and economics KW - Political economy KW - Groupthink KW - Culture of fear KW - Emotional contagion KW - Anxiety KW - Policy error KW - COVID-19 TI - COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria DO - 10.3390/ ijerph18041376 ER -