> Jumping Frenchman syndrome is not a medical condition or a case of collective hysteria, but a classic case of operant conditioning —a learned behaviour reinforced by social stimuli—that developed in a closed community.
Sounds like religion
emmelaich•7mo ago
If you've seen fellow workers being attacked by bears or smashed by falling trees you'd be pretty jumpy too. Abrupt noise after hours of near silence, followed by trauma.
xattt•7mo ago
This, and also possible inter-generational family violence from a time when children were meant to neither be seen or heard.
> In the family of one of those with whom I experimented there were five Jumpers, the father, two sons, and two grandchildren of the respective ages of four and seven years…
yujzgzc•7mo ago
Sounds like religion