Bandwagon effect
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The Bandwagon effect, also known as social proof or "cromo effect" and closely related to opportunism, is the observation that people often do and believe things because many other people do and believe the same things. The effect is often pejoratively called herding instinct, particularly when applied to adolescents. People tend to follow the crowd without examining the merits of a particular thing. The bandwagon effect is the reason for the bandwagon fallacy's success.
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See also
- Bandwagon
- Bandwagon fan
- Bandwagoning
- Collective behavior
- Collective consciousness
- Collective effervescence
- Collective intelligence
- Communal reinforcement
- Conformism
- Crowd psychology
- Front-runner
- Group behaviour
- Herd behavior
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- List of cognitive biases
- Me too
- Meme
- Network effect
- Ochlocracy
- Peer pressure
- Sheeple
- Snowball effect
- Social comparison theory
- Spiral of silence
- Veblen good
- Pop music
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