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Contagion may refer to:
Medicine
Social science
Social contagion , the spontaneous spread of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors through a group or network
Emotional contagion , a tendency to feel others' emotions
Behavioral contagion , a tendency to mimic others' behavior
Law of contagion , a folk belief related to magical thinking
Financial contagion , a scenario in which financial shocks spread to other financial sectors
Hysterical contagion , an effect in which a group exhibits physical symptoms due to a psychological cause
Sacred contagion , the belief that spiritual properties pass from one entity to another
Complex contagion , a social networking phenomenon
Contagion heuristic , a psychological technique
Film and television
Music
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Topics referred to by the same term