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In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic amongst listeners. This text shows that the impact of the broadcast had less to do with what went out over the air than with the 'standards of judgment' people did or did not use in evaluating what they heard.Cantril, Hadley is the author of 'Invasion From Mars A Study In The Psychology Of Panic', published 2005 under ISBN 9781412804707 and ISBN 1412804701.
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