Social Panics & Phantom Attackers: A Study of Imaginary Assailants - Paperback
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Social Panics & Phantom Attackers: A Study of Imaginary Assailants
This book provides an accessible overview of one particular type of social panic: that of the phantom attacker. Such panics are characterised by outbreaks of sensational claims of attacks by mysterious figures that seem to emerge from nowhere, attack their innocent human and animal victims, only to vanish without a trace. Taking the recent wave of needle-spiking reports in Europe as a starting...
Robert E. Bartholomew is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. A sociologist and Fellow for the Center for Skeptical Inquiry, Robert critically investigates pseudoscience, collective behavior, and popular myths.
Paul Weatherhead teaches research and critical thinking skills to international students in Manchester, UK. The...
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2024 Edition
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