Examples of panic in the following topics:
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- Panic is a sudden terror which dominates thinking and often affects groups of people.
- Panics typically occur in disaster situations, such as during a fire, and may endanger the overall health of the affected group.
- These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
- Though not always, very often moral panics revolve around issues of sex and sexuality.
- These panics can sometimes lead to mob violence.
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- A panic attack is a sudden period of intense anxiety; if these attacks occur often, they may indicate a panic disorder.
- People with panic disorder may become so afraid of having panic attacks that they experience what are known as anticipatory attacks—essentially panicking about potential panic attacks and entering a cycle of living in fear of fear.
- In order to be diagnosed with panic disorder, a person must experience unexpected, recurrent panic attacks.
- While the previous version of the DSM defined panic disorder as occurring either with or without agoraphobia, the new DSM-5 lists panic disorder and agoraphobia as two distinct disorders.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the psychotherapeutic treatment of choice for panic disorder; several studies show that 85 to 90 percent of panic-disorder patients treated with CBT recover completely from their panic attacks within 12 weeks.
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- The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by
the overexpansion of the domestic economy.
- After the failure of Ohio
Life Insurance and Trust Company, the Panic quickly spread as businesses failed
and the stock market began to plummet.
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the aftermath of the Panic, the Southern economy suffered little while the
Northern economy made a slow recovery.
- Bank run on the Seamen's Savings Bank during the Panic of 1857.
- Examine how the Panic of 1857 impacted the economy and increased sectional tension
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- The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis, or market correction, driven by speculative fever.
- The Panic of 1837 was influenced by the economic policies of President Jackson.
- Martin Van Buren became president in March of 1837, five weeks before the Panic began; he was later blamed for the Panic.
- Virtually the whole nation felt the effects of the Panic.
- Whig cartoons depicted the economic challenges caused by the Panic of 1837.
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- The global Panic of 1873 reached the U.S. after overspeculation in the railroad industry and other losses weakened the economy.
- The Panic of 1873 was a world-wide depression that started when the stock market in Vienna crashed in June 1873.
- President Grant, who knew little about finance, relied on bankers for advice on how to curb the panic.
- Grant did nothing to prevent the panic and responded slowly after the banks crashed in September.
- Identify the economic factors that contributed to the Panic of 1893
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- The panic resulted in a wave of bankruptcies and bank failures; land prices dropped and wide-scale urban unemployment began .
- The Panic was followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and then-record-high unemployment levels.
- The Panic of 1837 also arrested business growth for several years.
- Run on the Seamen's Savings' Bank during the Panic of 1857
- Bank runs, in which patrons remove all of their funds from a failing bank, were common features of early banking panics in the U.S.
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- The Panic of 1819 was the first major financial crisis in the United States and occurred during the political calm of the "Era of Good Feelings."
- The Panic was also partially impacted by international events.
- The inflated economic bubble burst in 1819, resulting in the Panic of 1819.
- Many remedies to the Panic of 1819 were proposed, including the following:
- He acquiesced in suspending specie payments to bank depositors, setting a precedent for the Panics of 1837 and 1857.
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- After the short-lived panic of 1873, the economy recovered with the advent of hard money policies and industrialization.
- From 1869 to 1879, the U.S. economy grew at a rate of 6.8% for real GDP and 4.5% for real GDP per capita, despite the panic of 1873.
- The Panic of 1873 had New York Stock Exchange closed for ten days.
- The end of the Gilded Age coincided with the Panic of 1893, a deep depression that lasted until 1897 and marked a major political realignment in the election of 1896.
- Annotations are major financial panics during the period (e.g., Panic of 1893, Panic of 1907).
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- Berk (1974) uses game theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/game_Theory) to suggest that even a panic in a burning theater can reflect rational calculation: If members of the audience decide that it is more rational to run to the exits than to walk, the result may look like an animal-like stampede without in fact being irrational.
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- The term also occurs in the phrase mass hysteria to describe mass public near-panic reactions.
- Hysteria is often associated with movements like the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Satanic ritual abuse, where it is better understood through the related sociological term of moral panic.