Social contagion
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title:
Social contagion
text:
Social contagion involves behaviour, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network. The phenomenon has been discussed by social scientists since the late 19th century, although much work on the subject was based on unclear or even contradictory conceptions of what social contagion is, so exact definitions vary. Some scholars include the unplanned spread of ideas through a population as social contagion, though others prefer to class that as memetics. Generally social
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encyclopedia
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Spontaneous spread of behavior or emotions among a group
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contagion
date created:
2010-03-11T11:30:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T00:52:33Z
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