Contagion

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Contagion may refer to:

Medicine

• Contagious disease

Social science

• Social contagion, the spontaneous spread of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors through a group or network
• 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

Film and television

• Contagion (1987 film), directed by Karl Zwicky
• Contagion (2002 film), featuring Bruce Boxleitner
• Contagion (2011 film), directed by Steven Soderbergh
• "Contagion" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), 1989 TV episode

Music

• Contagion (Oceano album), 2010
• "Contagion", a song by Black Dahlia Murder on the 2003 album Unhallowed

Other uses

• Contagion (novel), by Robin Cook
• Batman: Contagion, a comic book story arc
• Coded Arms: Contagion, a 2007 video game
• Contagion (video game), a 2014 video game

See also

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• All pages with titles beginning with Contagion
• Contagious (disambiguation)

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