Any kind of behavior change you wish to effectuate that involves social contagion can in principle be enhanced by using this technique.” The study is part of a large multi-year project in ...

Emotional contagion can be triggered by nonverbals such as facial expressions as well as by overt conversational or behavioral cues: A smile can spread from one person to another, and someone who ...

medical disaster film Contagion, and truly nightmare-inducing unofficial The Wizard of Oz follow-up Return to Oz. Other replies, however, were unexpected to say the least... "Popeye. A horrible ...

Anyone who watched the movie Contagion may remember the dramatic scene when Gwyneth Paltrow seized on her kitchen floor as the world battled a virus that causes severe encephalitis. The movie ...

A team of researchers found that long-tie connections accelerate the speed of social contagion. Human beings are likely to adopt the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors of those around them.

"We found that targeting people's friends for an intervention induced significant social contagion, creating cascades of beneficial health practices to people who didn't receive the intervention ...

Still, the “coup contagion” lurks on Africa’s political horizon, as a recent foiled attempt in South Sudan shows. A spate of other coup attempts in African states over the last several years ...

Canadian real estate prices surged after rate cuts, and have generally cooled since rates began to normalize. Canadian Real ...

S&P Global Market Intelligence explores possible credit contagion effects from the corporate sector to real estate by using S ...

Investors have worried about a possible contagion in the sector since three prominent lenders – Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic and Signature Bank – collapsed in early 2023. Prior to the ...

Such information contagion is thus costly to bank owners. Given their limited liability, banks herd ex-ante and undertake correlated investments to increase the likelihood of joint survival. If the ...