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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

This seminal work should definitely be referenced on this page: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 92.7.110.131 (talk) 12:34, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Dr. Calmes's comment on this article

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Section on Human societies, subsection on Stock market It is very important to distinguish economic herding from financial contagion. Contagion refers to a situation where a shock would hit a first player and then propagate (e.g., in Diamond and Dybvig model of bank runs), whereas herding refers to a common practise. In this last class, we should distinguish pure herding (imitation, like in the famous lemmins race) from rational agents arriving at the same decision and course of action based on the same information set.

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We believe Dr. Calmes has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:

• Reference : Christian Calmes & Raymond Theoret, 2011. "Bank systemic risk and the business cycle: An empirical investigation using Canadian data," RePAd Working Paper Series UQO-DSA-wp322011, Departement des sciences administratives, UQO.

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Proposed merge from sheeple

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To merge Sheeple into Herd behavior. Klbrain (talk) 06:57, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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Proposing to merge sheeple into this article. It's a pejorative neologism referring to the same subject. Per WP:NOPAGE it seems relatively straightforward. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:03, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

• Support as proposer — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:03, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
• Support. When we remove the original research and primary sources [4], [5] and [7] it will not lend undue weight to this article. wumbolo ^^^ 08:33, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Support the merger. --Jeonghyeonseo (talk) 10:59, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

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Wiki wrong, no such thing as herd instinct or leader or crowd psyx etc. One can lead oneself, crowd etc or not doesn't matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lyhendq (talk • contribs) 07:52, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

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