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Information cascade

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informational (or information) cascades happen when Internet users start passing on information they assume to be true, but cannot know to be true, based on information on what other users are doing. [1]

36 relations: Adaptive market hypothesis, Anecdotal value, Ant mill, Asch conformity experiments, Availability cascade, Bandwagon effect, Bestseller, Cascade, Collective wisdom, Cultural economics, Cyberbullying, David Hirshleifer, Decentralized decision-making, Discharge petition, Evolutionary mismatch, Financial economics, Gary Taubes, Global cascades model, Herd, Herd behavior, Herd mentality, Human-based evolutionary computation, Information cascade, Ivo Welch, John A. List, Microblogging, Noisy market hypothesis, Popularity, Secure key issuing cryptography, Self-monitoring, Social media mining, Social proof, The New York Times Best Seller list, The Wisdom of Crowds, Tipping point (sociology), Trend following.

Adaptive market hypothesis

The adaptive market hypothesis, as proposed by Andrew Lo, is an attempt to reconcile economic theories based on the efficient market hypothesis (which implies that markets are efficient) with behavioral economics, by applying the principles of evolution to financial interactions: competition, adaptation and natural selection.

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Anecdotal value

In communication studies, science communication, psycholinguistics and choice theory, anecdotal value refers to the primarily social and political value of an anecdote or anecdotal evidence in promoting understanding of a social, cultural, or economic phenomenon.

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Ant mill

An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle.

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Asch conformity experiments

In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm refers to a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions.

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Availability cascade

An availability cascade is a self-reinforcing cycle that explains the development of certain kinds of collective beliefs.

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Bandwagon effect

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.

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Bestseller

A bestseller is, usually, a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains.

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Cascade

Cascade, Cascades or Cascading may refer to.

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Collective wisdom

Collective wisdom, also called group wisdom and co-intelligence, is shared knowledge arrived at by individuals and groups.

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Cultural economics

Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes.

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Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying or cyberharassment is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.

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David Hirshleifer

David Hirshleifer is an American economist.

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Decentralized decision-making

Decentralized decision-making is any process where the decision-making authority is distributed throughout a larger group.

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Discharge petition

In United States parliamentary procedure, a discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee by "discharging" the committee from further consideration of a bill or resolution.

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Evolutionary mismatch

Evolutionary mismatch, also known as mismatch theory or evolutionary trap, is a concept in evolutionary biology that refers to evolved traits that were once advantageous but became maladaptive due to changes in the environment.

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Financial economics

Financial economics is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on both sides of a trade".

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Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an American science writer.

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Global cascades model

Global cascades models are a class of models aiming to model large and rare cascades that are triggered by exogenous perturbations which are relatively small compared with the size of the system.

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Herd

A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic.

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Herd behavior

Herd behavior describes how individuals in a group can act collectively without centralized direction.

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Herd mentality

Herd mentality, mob mentality and pack mentality, also lesser known as gang mentality, describes how people can be influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors on a largely emotional, rather than rational, basis.

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Human-based evolutionary computation

Human-based evolutionary computation (HBEC) is a set of evolutionary computation techniques that rely on human innovation.

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Information cascade

informational (or information) cascades happen when Internet users start passing on information they assume to be true, but cannot know to be true, based on information on what other users are doing.

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Ivo Welch

Ivo Welch, is an American economist and finance academic.

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John A. List

John August List (born September 25, 1968) is an American economist at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics.

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Microblogging

Microblogging is an online broadcast medium that exists as a specific form of blogging.

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Noisy market hypothesis

In finance, the noisy market hypothesis contrasts the efficient-market hypothesis in that it claims that the prices of securities are not always the best estimate of the true underlying value of the firm.

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Popularity

In sociology, the popularity of a person, idea, item or other concept can be defined in terms of liking, attraction, dominance and superiority.

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Secure key issuing cryptography

Secure key issuing is variant of ID-based cryptography that reduces the level of trust that needs to be placed in a trusted third party by spreading the trust across multiple third parties.

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Self-monitoring

Self-monitoring is a concept introduced during the 1970s by Mark Snyder, that shows how much people monitor their self-presentations, expressive behavior, and nonverbal affective displays.

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Social media mining

Social media mining is the process of representing, analyzing, and extracting actionable patterns and trends from raw social media data.

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Social proof

Social proof (also known as informational social influence) is a psychological and social phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior in a given situation.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.

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Tipping point (sociology)

In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group—or a large number of group members—rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.

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Trend following

Trend following or trend trading is a trading strategy according to which one should buy an asset when its price trend goes up, and sell when its trend goes down, expecting price movements to continue.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade

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