social contagion

基本解释

If this social contagion helps online stores, wouldn’t it always make sense for Internet stores to target densely populated areas?
如果這種“社會傳染”現象有助於網店的發展，那麽網店將目標對準人口密集地區豈不是最好不過？
And then there's a phenomenon called "social contagion," in which one group member brings up an error or "remembers" something that didn't happen.
而且還有一種現象叫做“社會傳染”，即小組中其中一個成員出了錯或者“記起來”根本沒發生過的是事情。
They looked at the effect of divorce among peer groups on an individual's own risk of divorce and found a clear process of what the scientists called "social contagion".
他們關注同齡人個躰離婚對自己離婚的影響，竝發現了一個清晰的過程，科學家稱之爲“社會感染”。

Once you get your zealots excited and talking, social network theory and the subsequent effects of contagion suggest that they can in turn influence 10s, 100s and 1000s of like-minded social citizens.
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