contagion effect
Transmitted behavioral pattern
The contagion effect is the tendency for behaviors, emotions, or conditions to spread from person to person like an infectious disease.
Financial panics exhibit contagion when one bank failure triggers runs on other banks.
The term appears in psychology, economics, and public health: Researchers studied the contagion effect of suicide coverage in the media.
The metaphor captures how phenomena propagate through social connection rather than direct causation.
- financial crisisSevere economic system breakdown
- peer influenceEffect of equals' opinions
- viral transmissionSpread of infectious agents
- viral marketingSelf-propagating promotional strategy
- market volatilityRapid price fluctuation severity
epidemic · outbreak · social movements · systemic risk · panic buying · mass hysteria · currency devaluation · groupthink · social proof · capital flight · stock market crash · going viral · bank run · vaccination campaign · herd mentality · herd behavior · speculative bubble · global recession
- Asian CrisisThailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, currency collapse
- Indirect Effectssecondhand smoke, passive smoking, collateral damage, spillover, chain reaction
- financial crisesfinancial collapse, bank run, economic collapse, bank failure, bank failures
- tech adoptionadoption rate, technology adoption, early adopter, early adopters, late adopter
- suicide preventionsuicide, prevention, crisis, hotlines, helplines
contagion effectcontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
isolation · quarantine · insulation · compartmentalization · localization
contagion effectcircuit breaker
Automatic power cutoff device
shock absorber · resilience · decoupling · immunization · herd immunity
contagion, effect, contagious, contagiously, contagiousness, contact, contiguous, tangible, tactile