Why Were We Obsessed With Lavender Town?

2011. 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:    • LAVENDER TOWN  

▶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/ma...

Twitching Follow-up:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-st...

Twitching In-Depth Explanation:    • Mass Hysteria in Le Roy, New York? | ...  

How Mass Hysteria Is Related to Groupthink
https://www.verywellmind.com/understa...

Epidemic Hysteria: A Review of the Published Literature
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bc21...

What Is Mass Psychogenic Illness?
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1215/p2...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

Lavender Town Syndrome
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/L...
https://kotaku.com/pokemons-creepy-la...

Illusory Truth Effect:
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/ill...

Knowledge Does Not Protect Against Illusory Truth
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/fea...

Original pastebin post:
https://pastebin.com/f71e6728f

Nocebo Effect:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

https://www.bmj.com/content/332/7546/...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22336...



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