Kurt Baschwitz

Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968) had a lifelong fascination for ‘the riddle of the mass’ in both its visible and invisible forms. He was a major pioneer of communication and media studies on the European continent, an early student of the social, political, and mass psychology of crowds, publics, audiences, and public opinion, as well as a versatile social historian. Half a century after his death, however, he risks being forgotten and misunderstood, falling through the cracks of history

Prospective individual patient data meta-analysis of two randomized trials on convalescent plasma for COVID-19 outpatients

Data on convalescent plasma (CP) treatment in COVID-19 outpatients are scarce. We aimed to assess whether CP administered during the first week of symptoms reduced the disease progression or risk of hospitalization of outpatients. Two multicenter, double-blind randomized trials (NCT04621123, NCT04589949) were merged with data pooling starting when = 50 years and symptomatic for <= 7days were included. The intervention consisted of 200-300mL of CP with a predefined minimum level of antibodies. Primary endpoints were a 5-point disease severity scale and a composite of hospitalization or death by 28 days. Amongst the 797 patients included, 390 received CP and 392 placebo; they had a median age of 58 years, 1 comorbidity, 5 days symptoms and 93% had negative IgG antibody-test. Seventy-four patients were hospitalized, 6 required mechanical ventilation and 3 died. The odds ratio (OR) of CP for improved disease severity scale was 0.936 (credible interval (CI) 0.667-1.311); OR for hospitalization or death was 0.919 (CI 0.592-1.416). CP effect on hospital admission or death was largest in patients with <= 5 days of symptoms (OR 0.658, 95%CI 0.394-1.085). CP did not decrease the time to full symptom resolution

Outline of a Cultural History of Political Psychology

The hypothesis of J. van Ginneken is that political psychology was developed through a long historical process in Europe and in USA since the 1860-1870 period. In this article he shows that political psychology was born as an answer to specific needs of countries in the midst of transformation. Thus, the emergence of individuals with the liberty of choice and political instability in France and authoritarianism in Germany brought very important texts from Le Bon to Freud. Finally, the profound changes which occurred in the 20th century established political psychology and allowed the methodological revolutions which led to survey techniques.Son hypothèse étant que la psychologie politique est le produit d'un long processus historique, l'auteur se propose de retracer l'émergence et l'évolution de la psychologie politique en Europe et aux États-Unis depuis les années 1860-1870. Il montre ainsi que la psychologie politique est née afin de répondre à des besoins spécifiques de ces pays en pleine mutation : par exemple l'émergence de l'individu libre de ses choix, instabilité politique en France, autoritarisme en Allemagne se sont traduits par des grands textes fondateurs, de Le Bon à Freud. Enfin les grands bouleversements des deux après-guerre ont définitivement enraciné la psychologie politique jusqu'aux révolutions méthodologiques du XXe siècle d'où sont issus en particulier les sondages

Charisme et insécurité dans les élections néerlandaises

Ginneken Jaap Van. Charisme et insécurité dans les élections néerlandaises. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 40 n°379, 1987. Psychologie sociale. pp. 297-300

Kurt Baschwitz

Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968) had a lifelong fascination for ‘the riddle of the mass’ in both its visible and invisible forms. He was a major pioneer of communication and media studies on the European continent, an early student of the social, political, and mass psychology of crowds, publics, audiences, and public opinion, as well as a versatile social historian. Half a century after his death, however, he risks being forgotten and misunderstood, falling through the cracks of history

Collective behavior and public opinion : rapid shifts in opinion and communication/ Ginneken

xv, 301 hal.; 23 cm

Collective behavior and public opinion : rapid shifts in opinion and communication/ Ginneken

xv, 301 hal.; 23 cm