Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
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Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
The Bandwagon Effect (also called “herd mentality”) is when people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their original feelings or beliefs.
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The fundamental problem with an information cascade is that after a certain point it becomes rational for people to stop paying attention to their own knowledge—their private information—and to start looking instead at the actions of others and imitate them. (If everyone has the same likelihood of making the right choice, and everyone before you ha
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social proof—basically, the tendency of people to view an activity as more worthwhile if other people are doing it.