bandwagon effect

phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others
Event cognitive_bias Q955199
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bandwagon effect

Summary

bandwagon effect is a cognitive bias[1]. It draws 196 Wikipedia views per month (cognitive_bias category, ranking #22 of 95).[2]

Key Facts

  • bandwagon effect's image is recorded as Circus-Parade white-bandwagon Jul09.jpg[3].
  • bandwagon effect's instance of is recorded as cognitive bias[4].
  • bandwagon effect's instance of is recorded as social phenomenon[5].
  • bandwagon effect's instance of is recorded as social behavior[6].
  • bandwagon effect's GND ID is recorded as 4246992-2[7].
  • bandwagon effect's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[8].
  • bandwagon effect's part of is recorded as crowd psychology terminology[9].
  • bandwagon effect's Commons category is recorded as Cultural trends[10].
  • bandwagon effect's opposite of is recorded as snob effect[11].
  • bandwagon effect's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/016_zs[12].
  • bandwagon effect's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/bandwagon-effect[13].
  • bandwagon effect's different from is recorded as collective consciousness[14].
  • bandwagon effect's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as mode-le-phenomene-et-son-evolution[15].
  • bandwagon effect's Treccani ID is recorded as effetto-bandwagon_(altro)[16].
  • bandwagon effect's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as bandwagon-effekt[17].
  • bandwagon effect's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 52416528[18].
  • bandwagon effect's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C52416528[19].
  • bandwagon effect's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2994171679[20].
  • bandwagon effect's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as バンドワゴン効果[21].

Why It Matters

bandwagon effect draws 196 Wikipedia views per month (cognitive_bias category, ranking #22 of 95).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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