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Look up contagion or contagious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contagion may refer to: Contagious disease Social contagion, the spontaneous spread

Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law

Social contagion involves behaviour, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network. The phenomenon has been discussed by

In social psychology, hysterical contagion occurs when people in a group show signs of a physical problem or illness, when in reality there are psychological

Financial contagion refers to "the spread of market disturbances—mostly on the downside—from one country to the other, a process observed through co-movements

Intentional contagion of infection, also called voluntary contagion, conscious contagion, or intentional transmission is the act by which a human being

Emotional contagion is a form of social contagion that involves the spontaneous spread of emotions and related behaviors. Such emotional convergence can

follow a physician's therapeutic regimen. A hybrid form of miasma and contagion theory was proposed by Persian physician Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in

Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually

Contingent contagionism was a concept in 19th-century medical writing and epidemiology before the germ theory, used as a qualified way of rejecting the