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It is right out of a textbook on mass psychology.

Ninety years ago, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich wrote about mass psychology and the origins of fascism.

Economists and industry experts said the shortages at the gas pump were driven by mass psychology more than actual scarcity of supplies.

Energy and marketing experts say the rush to buy gas was partly justified and partly a case of mass psychology.

Wilhelm Reich in "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" and Klaus Theweleit in "Male Fantasies" argue that sadism, along with a grotesque hyper-masculinity, rather than any coherent belief system, is the core of fascism, although communist regimes in China and the Soviet Union could be as murderous and sadistic as their fascist counterparts.