Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. Do you ever find yourself doing something simply because ...

We've all done it. We've jumped on the bandwagon because something became popular. Many people in the region are now jumping on the Nationals' bandwagon as they head to the World Series this week. One ...

Elected policymakers like to do smart and popular things, but they don't like to be the last one to do a smart and popular thing, which is how bandwagon effects begin -- politicians see their ...

Granzier, Riako, Vincent Pons, and Clémence Tricaud. "Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics ...

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – During a market crisis, when everyone wants to jump off the ship in the same leaky lifeboats, that doesn’t bode well for most individual investors, who simply want to ...

Recent research in economics, psychology, and political science describes the 'bandwagon effect' - or alternatively 'contagion effect' - as a general cultural phenomenon or bias in which the rate at ...

The bandwagon effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. The ...