Psychologist Hadley Cantril, who examined the panic caused by the dramatization of
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, attributed the panic to widespread anxiety about world conditions.

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Hadley Cantril, in his study "The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic" (1940), attributed the panic caused by the 1938 radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to the high level of anxiety already present in the population due to the tense international situation and fear of impending war.

Psychologist Hadley Cantril, Who Examined the Panic Caused by the Dramatization