Question

Not all members of the radio audience of orson welles' war of the worlds broadcast panicked immediately. indeed, some didn't panic until they looked out of the window and saw empty streets; others didn't panic until they saw streets full of traffic. it was after checking out the situation that these citizens decided that the martians had indeed invaded earth. this example illustrates that contagion

Answer 1

I do not know the exact choices implied in here but I believe that this example illustrates that contagion:

can result when people look to others for the interpretation of ambiguous situations.

Contagion is just like the word contagious. Contagion means the situation in which ideas, feelings, or problems spread from one place to another.