Your brain has a biological limit of 150 meaningful relationships. Understanding the Dunbar number helps you optimize personal networks, build better teams, and navigate social media's illusion of unlimited connection.
Social contagion—the rapid spread of behaviors, emotions, and beliefs through networks—shapes everything from viral memes to financial crashes. Powered by mirror neurons and turbocharged by algorithms, contagion can tip behaviors viral once critical thresholds are reached. While it enables positive cascades like public health campaigns spreading across communities, it also fuels misinformation, mass panic, and algorithmic radicalization. Understanding network science, developing resistance sk...
Social contagion spreads through networks using the same mathematical principles as disease outbreaks, with network structure, centrality, and reinforcement thresholds determining which behaviors go viral and which fizzle out.
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