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The 15 pages that link to Social contagion, each with the reason it gives.

• Social networkRelated: It describes how a trait can propagate along a network's relationships.

• Collective behaviorRelated: Actions and feelings can spread through a gathering as people observe one another.

• Crowd psychologyRelated: Explains how actions and feelings can spread rapidly among people gathered together.

• Observational learningCompared with: Its effects can resemble observational learning, though the underlying processes may differ.

• MemeRelated: Memes can spread through the same interpersonal pathways modeled as contagion.

• Viral marketingRelated: It describes how exposure to others' sharing can prompt further sharing.

• Mass psychogenic illnessRelated: Observation and communication can help similar symptoms move through a group.

• Gustave Le BonRelated: His crowd theory describes emotions and actions spreading rapidly among assembled people.

• Bandwagon effectCompared with: It raises the unresolved question of whether similarity reflects direct influence or shared conditions.

• Dance crazeNarrower topic: A dance craze is a visible case of behavior spreading through imitation.

• Dancing plague of 1518Related: The rapid involvement of additional dancers may be interpreted as behavior spreading through a group.

• Tanganyika laughter epidemicRelated: The reported clusters followed social networks rather than a known pathogen.

• Nicholas ChristakisRelated: It names the proposed process behind several of Christakis’s findings about network influence.

• Robert J. ShillerRelated: Investor confidence and fear can spread through networks, shaping market-wide buying and selling.

• Widow's BayRelated: Shared fears can turn a private suspicion into a town-wide conviction.