Why Were We Obsessed With Lavender Town?
50,5032011. A year when the Lavender Town creepypasta is brewing and getting ready to take over the internet. Coincidentally, also the year when several girls in Le Roy New York began to experience a bizarre illness that seemed to come out of nowhere.... And as fate would have it, both incidents share a disturbing thread when you look at the psychology behind what was happening. Today on Psych of Play, we’re talking Nocebo, Mass Psychogenic Illness, and Illusory Truth. Strap in, this one is a bit spoopy.
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▶Games Shown
Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) - Square Enix
Pokemon Red & Blue2 (1996) - Game Freak
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (2018) - Game Freak
Resident Evil 3 (2020) - Capcom
▶Clips/Movies Shown
Kaguya Sama: Love is War (2019)
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (2019)
Dragonball Z (1989)
Naruto (2002)
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Knowing (2009)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Notebook (2004)
The Fairly OddParents (2001)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Fist Fight (2017)
Transformers (2007)
Psych (2006)
One of the harry potters, half blood prince? 2010?
My Hero Academia (2016)
Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999)
Veggietales (2002) - yes I did, name another creator that would use fucking VEGGIETALES CLIPS
Rounders (1998)
Memento (2000)
Looney Tunes (1930-69)
Other Videos Referenced/Included: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwABHajSLTc992BYJ3I3VQ7fxGiQk3I4Z
▶Music Sources:
Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' True Remix
BACKWHEN - Dreamcatcher
Himel Anthony - Dark Scary Ambient Music
dontaskalex - out of the blue
KE$HA - TiK ToK (InstrumentalKaraoke)
manitee - Seafloor
a conscious cloud - Pokemon Lavender Town Remix (Creepypasta Song)
Stiig - Gently Pass
Stiig - Going Home
Pokemon Ruby OST - The Drought
Tokyo Rose - End Game
TRVTH - Lost
▶Research Articles Cited
Original Twitching Story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html
Twitching Follow-up:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-students-twitcnew-york-h/schools-end-clears-up-new-york-students-mystery-twitching-idUSBRE85M0DF20120623
Twitching In-Depth Explanation: https://youtu.be/ZvLtO6ObLsw
How Mass Hysteria Is Related to Groupthink
https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-groupthink-2671595
Epidemic Hysteria: A Review of the Published Literature
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bc21/5cfdd576f3b74c73e08653e0b049ddc931c9.pdf
What Is Mass Psychogenic Illness?
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1215/p2655.html
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200001133420206
Lavender Town Syndrome
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Lavender_Town_Syndrome
https://kotaku.com/pokemons-creepy-lavender-town-myth-explained-1651851621
Illusory Truth Effect:
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/illusory-truth-effect/
Knowledge Does Not Protect Against Illusory Truth
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/xge-0000098.pdf
Original pastebin post:
https://pastebin.com/f71e6728f
Nocebo Effect:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/protean-nature-of-mass-sociogenic-illness/2BDC2262E104B8A33F3DD49773DA0D8B
https://www.bmj.com/content/332/7546/886?view=long&pmid=16520326
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22336767/
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