- Look up
contagion or
contagious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contagion may
refer to:
Contagious disease Social contagion, the
spontaneous spread...
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Contagion is a 2011
American medical thriller film
directed by
Steven Soderbergh. Its
ensemble cast
includes Matt Damon,
Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law...
- The
contagion heuristic is a
psychological heuristic which follows the law of
contagion and the law of similarity,
leading people to
avoid contact with...
- In
social psychology,
hysterical contagion occurs when
people in a
group show
signs of a
physical problem or illness, when in
reality there are psychological...
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Social contagion involves behaviour, emotions, or
conditions spreading spontaneously through a
group or network. The
phenomenon has been
discussed by...
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Intentional contagion of infection, also
called voluntary contagion,
conscious contagion, or
intentional transmission is the act by
which a
human being...
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Financial contagion refers to "the
spread of
market disturbances—mostly on the downside—from one
country to the other, a
process observed through co-movements...
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Emotional contagion is a form of
social contagion that
involves the
spontaneous spread of
emotions and
related behaviors. Such
emotional convergence can...
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Contingent contagionism was a
concept in 19th-century
medical writing and
epidemiology before the germ theory, used as a
qualified way of
rejecting the...
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Sacred contagion is the
belief that
spiritual properties within an object, place, or
person may be p****ed to
another object, place, or person, usually...
