A PSYCHOLOGY OF RUMOR

Abstract

To decry the ravages of rumor-mongering is one thing; to control it is yet another. In the following article Mr. Knapp attempts to systematize the field of rumor—its causes and consequences—with an eye to the problem of rumor control. Formerly in charge of rumor control for the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, Robert Knapp has probably been as intimately connected with this field as any social scientist ever has.