Herd mentality
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In Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness theHerd mentality is the name from people are heavily influenced by the actions of others. Sunstein and Thaler cite a famous study by Solomon Asch where people, due to peer pressure, answer certain questions in a way that was clearly false (such as saying that two lines are the same length, when they clearly are not).
