Is psychology suffering from an epidemic of "contagion"? Moving from metaphors to theoretically derived concepts and methods in the study of social influences - Kindermann TA, Skinner EA.

The term "contagion" has become increasingly popular as an omnibus catch-all to depict all kinds of mutual influences between people of equal status (or "peers"). We argue that some of these influences may qualify as "contagion," but others denote alternat...
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