Social Science
- 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
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