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In June of 1962, dozens of workers in a textile factory came down with the same physical symptoms–rashes, numbness in the hands and feet, and episodes of nausea. It was initially believed that the ...

"The social contagion of behavior through networks can help us understand how and why new norms, products, and ideas are adopted." Initially, researchers thought highly clustered ties that are close ...

A recent draft report from the United Nations has ignited global concern after repeating claims that gender dysphoria may be “socially contagious.” Reem Alsalem, the UN Human Rights Council’s special ...

In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines. Nearly 40 girls age 12 to 18 from a religious school had been screaming inconsolably, ...