Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades

Diffusion of Innovations

1962 • 38,523 citations

American Economic Review

2019 • 12,528 citations

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

1989 • 6,966 citations

A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades

1992 • 6,347 citations

A Simple Model of Herd Behavior

1992 • 6,291 citations

Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis

1973 • 4,224 citations

Crime and Social Interactions

1996 • 1,813 citations

Disorder and decline: crime and the spiral of decay in American neighborhoods

1991 • 1,348 citations

Sequential Sales, Learning, and Cascades

1992 • 1,221 citations

A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades

1992 • 1,199 citations

The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989–91

1994 • 995 citations

Pathological Outcomes of Observational Learning

2000 • 806 citations

Self-Organized Criticality

1991 • 703 citations

Information Cascades in the Laboratory

1997 • 599 citations

Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution

1989 • 545 citations

Information Revelation and Strategic Delay in a Model of Investment

1994 • 515 citations

An Economic Study of U. S. Aircraft Hijacking, 1961-1976

1978 • 274 citations

Social Influence, Social Meaning, and Deterrence

1997 • 265 citations

Business as Usual, Market Crashes, and Wisdom after the Fact

1994 • 260 citations

Endogenous Timing and the Clustering of Agents' Decisions

1995 • 250 citations

Help Wanted: Economists, Crime and Public Policy

1996 • 238 citations

How Fast do Rational Agents Learn?

1993 • 226 citations

On the Convergence of Informational Cascades

1993 • 217 citations

Copying and sexual selection

1992 • 215 citations

Social Influence, Social Meaning, and Deterrence

2019 • 189 citations

Investment and Coordination in Oligopolistic Industries

1987 • 181 citations

Herd Behavior, the "Penguin Effect," and the Suppression of Informational Diffusion: An Analysis of Informational Externalities and Payoff Interdependency

1997 • 176 citations

Strategic Delay and the Onset of Investment Cascades

1997 • 138 citations

Asymmetric Information, Information Externalities, and Efficiency: The Case of Oil Exploration

1989 • 106 citations

Can Brute Deterrence Backfire? Perceptions and Attitudes in Taxpayer Compliance

1991 • 94 citations

Classroom Games: Information Cascades

1996 • 75 citations

Variations in Medical Practice Use: Causes and Consequences

1993 • 52 citations

Medicine out of control: The anatomy of a malignant technology

1979 • 41 citations

The Journal of Economic Perspectives

1996 • 26 citations

Optimal Contracting with Moral Hazard and Cascading

1998 • 20 citations

Matters of Life & Death: Risks vs. Benefits of Medical Care

1984 • 15 citations