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Social proof (or informational social influence) is a psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others in choosing how to behave in a given situation. The term was coined by Robert Cialdini in his 1984 book Influence: Science and Practice .
The most iconic -- and most ridiculous -- bubble the world has ever seen peaked on Feb. 3. It wasn't the dot-com bubble, the housing boom, the social-media bubble, or even the frenzy over
The first real newspapers appeared around the 1600s in Holland, Yale economist and recent Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller mentioned at a conference in Orlando last week. That was also around the ...
Social media inadvertently isolates users into their own ideological filter bubbles, according to internet activist Eli Pariser. A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolation [1] that can result from personalized searches, recommendation systems, and algorithmic curation.
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Herbert Blumer was the first to specifically use the term "social contagion”, in his 1939 paper on collective behavior, where he gave the dancing mania of the middle ages as a prominent example. From the 1950s, studies of social contagion began to investigate the phenomena empirically, and became more frequent.
Social history, often called "history from below", is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are ...
Baby boomers bust': Robert Kiyosaki warns that older Americans will get crushed in the 'biggest bubble in history' — 3 shockproof assets for instant insurance now The price of home insurance has ...