bandwagon effect
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Prepare for the bandwagon effect when people realize his gift for sticking close to receivers and start figuring out he’s no fluke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
This bandwagon effect was first noted in politics, but recent decades have seen a deluge of papers using the theory to analyze the behavior of consumers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Throughout millions of years of evolution, these principles have been coded into the human brain in the form of cognitive biases that come with names like familiarity, mere exposure and bandwagon effect.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 7, 2021
Throughout millions of years of evolution, these principles have been coded into the human brain in the form of cognitive biases that come with names like familiarity, mere-exposure and bandwagon effect.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2021
“Sgt. Pepper” had an immediate, short-lived bandwagon effect, as some late-1960s bands sought to figure out how to make those strange Beatles sounds, and others got more studio time and backup musicians than they needed.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2017
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