social contagion

基本解释

If this social contagion helps online stores, wouldn’t it always make sense for Internet stores to target densely populated areas?
如果这种“社会传染”现象有助于网店的发展，那么网店将目标对准人口密集地区岂不是最好不过？
And then there's a phenomenon called "social contagion," in which one group member brings up an error or "remembers" something that didn't happen.
而且还有一种现象叫做“社会传染”，即小组中其中一个成员出了错或者“记起来”根本没发生过的是事情。
They looked at the effect of divorce among peer groups on an individual's own risk of divorce and found a clear process of what the scientists called "social contagion".
他们关注同龄人个体离婚对自己离婚的影响，并发现了一个清晰的过程，科学家称之为“社会感染”。

Once you get your zealots excited and talking, social network theory and the subsequent effects of contagion suggest that they can in turn influence 10s, 100s and 1000s of like-minded social citizens.
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