The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others. In other words, the bandwagon effect is characterized by the probability of individual adoption increasing with respect to the proportion who have already done so. As more people come ...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
(from the article `public opinion`) Critics allege also that election polls create a `bandwagon effect`—that people want to be on the winning side and therefore switch their votes to ...
Found on
http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/16
noun the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity; `in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity`; `polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to be...
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974
No exact match found.
