The bandwagon effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. The ...

"Get in, loser! We're jumping on the bandwagon." How often have you done something, promoted a specific idea, or behaved a certain way because other people were doing it? It could be as innocent as ...

Jeffrey Rohlfs, a principal at Strategic Policy Research, Inc., will present his new book, Bandwagon Effects in High-Technology Industries, which illustrates how the dynamics of high-technology ...

Are you following the crowd when it comes to your finances? You may not think so, but most human beings are subject to “the bandwagon effect.” This cognitive bias can cause us to think and act in ...

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – During a market crisis, when everyone wants to jump off the ship in the same leaky lifeboats, that doesn’t bode well for most individual investors, who simply want to ...

While I cannot know what the results Tuesday will bring, by the time you read this, there is no doubt we will have heard a great deal about either “bandwagons” or “underdogs.” Several years ago, this ...

The #MeToo movement inspired progressive legislatures this year to revisit mandatory sexual harassment training programs statewide for nearly all workers and supervisors, part of the sweeping effort ...

Jacob Collins, CEO | Collins Ecom specializes in e-commerce & dropshipping, with over $11M generated in direct-to-consumer sales. In the world of e-commerce, it’s not enough to just have a great ...

Recent research in economics, psychology, and political science describes the 'bandwagon effect' - or alternatively 'contagion effect' - as a general cultural phenomenon or bias in which the rate at ...

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Jeffrey Rohlfs, a principal at Strategic Policy Research, Inc ...