Mental models/Bandwagon Effect
Behavioral & Decision Making

Bandwagon Effect

The tendency for people to adopt certain behaviours, styles, or attitudes simply because others are doing so.

In plain language

People adopt beliefs or behaviours because others have. Social proof at scale becomes self-reinforcing.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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