Consumers’ ‘herding instinct’ turns on and off, Facebook study shows

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 16:31 in Mathematics & Economics

A new study shows that consumers have a herding instinct to follow the crowd. However, this instinct appears to switch off if the product fails to achieve a certain popularity threshold. The new study is based on an analysis of how millions of Facebook users adopted software, known as apps, to personalize their Facebook pages.

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