bandwagon effect
Americannoun
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bandwagon effects
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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
“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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