Herd behavior
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- a social tendency in humans to identify with and model many behaviors and beliefs after a larger group of individuals with whom they identify.
Herd behaviour describes how individuals in a group can act together without planned direction. The term pertains to the behaviour of animals in herds, flocks, and schools, and to human conduct during activities such as stock market bubbles and crashes, street demonstrations, sporting events, episodes of mob violence and even everyday decision making, judgement and opinion forming.
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