SciShow Psych: How Psychology Can Explain the Deadly Medieval Dancing Plagues

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Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: From the 1200s through the 1600s, parts of Europe were afflicted with deadly, mysterious outbreaks of seemingly contagious, unstoppable dancing. While it's still unclear exactly why these "dancing plagues" happened, modern psychology may be able to provide some answers. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60386-X/fulltext, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932708000379?via%3Dihub#bib1 https://psychcentral.com/disorders/other-specifiedunspecified-dissociative-disorder/ https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dissociative-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20355215 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/j.1440-1614.2004.01379.x https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/070674371105600407 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano_Ferracuti/publication/14534428_Dissociative_Trance_Disorder_Clinical_and_Rorschach_Findings_in_Ten_Persons_Reporting_Demon_Possession_and_Treated_by_Exorcism/links/0912f50a570ac64fc1000000.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2017.1313522 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02626667.2011.583613 https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/socialpsychology/n60.xml https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2594804?casa_token=fP9L7ttrHMIAAAAA:qyoVT1HX38IYT19l_NlZSTtTrMBNQNAlxum0tsDvwazLvdkgGczEouLfpGQ1PlXw5Edxcc2Yfw https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-first-impression/201806/the-social-contagion-suicide https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03196174.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830455/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-case-dancing-mania-struck-germany-six-centuries-ago-today-180959549/ https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/07/rethinking_the_dancing_mania/?%2Fsi%2Fshow%2Frethinking_the_dancing_mania https://www.aastweb.org/hubfs/A2Zzzz%20Q4%202017/A2Zzz%20Q4%20Insufficient%20Sleep%20Part%201.pdf


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