Question

You are studying in a quiet but crowded library when you suddenly start coughing. you soon notice others doing the same thing. this is an example of _____.

Answer 1

social contagion
This happens when there is the inclination for certain conduct displayed by one individual to be duplicated by other people who are either in the region of the first person who displayed that behaviour . It was initially postulated by Gustave Le Bon in 1895