TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1944//
TI  - The Social Psychology of Fear
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Riezler, Kurt
SP  - 489
EP  - 498
VL  - 49
IS  - 6
N2  - "Collective insecurity," the nightmare of modern industrial society, is a psychological phenomenon of some complexity. It is not merely the economic insecurity caused by mass unemployment. In an article in Social Research (September, 1943) on the psychology of the modern revolution I characterized the kind of fear which in times of crisis befalls the ordinary citizen as "fear of the unknown." An analysis of this phenomenon presupposes an inquiry into the interrelation between "fear" and "knowledge," both individual and social.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/219471
ID  - ref1
ER  -