Social contagion
The fever of the mindless crowd.
Definition
Social contagion is the fever of the crowd. In the digital village, panic and trends spread faster than wildfire. You see the mob running and feel the urge to join, abandoning your own path to follow the herd. It is the surrender of your logic to the collective impulse. You must remain the mountain that the river flows around. Do not let the stampede trample your reason.
In training
You can counter this risk with these skills:
resilience.
This risk shows up in these content types:
post,
text.
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