"social contagion" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1852, Horace Bushnell, Unconscious Influence: A Sermon, page 4:",
          "text": "A Peter leads a John, a John goes after a Peter, both of them unconscious of any influence exercised or received. And thus our life and conduct are ever propagating themselves, by a law of social contagion, throughout the circles […]",
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        "The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another; a behavior that spreads in this manner."
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        "(pathology, sociology, psychology) The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another; a behavior that spreads in this manner."
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        "(pathology, sociology, psychology) The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another; a behavior that spreads in this manner."
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