Anxiety leads to a narrowing of
the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people
are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is
necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the
first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by
what others are doing at the same time.
--J. A. C. Brown, Techniques of Persuasion
Psychology and the "War on Terror"
Declassified Psychological Warfare Plans: Earthquake, Japan
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