bandwagon effect
Americannoun
plural
bandwagon effectsExample Sentences
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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
Instead — as the bandwagon effect predicts — colleges hopped aboard without making a serious effort to determine whether the wagon was rolling in the right direction.
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
You might expect that if a local team has been hugely successful in the recent past, it would attract more fans through a bandwagon effect.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2014
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