Contagion may refer to:

Medicine

  • Contagious disease

Social science

  • Social contagion, the spontaneous spread of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors through a group or network
  • Emotional contagion, a tendency to feel others' emotions
  • Behavioral contagion, a tendency to mimic others' behavior
  • Law of contagion, a folk belief related to magical thinking
  • Financial contagion, a scenario in which financial shocks spread to other financial sectors
  • Hysterical contagion, an effect in which a group exhibits physical symptoms due to a psychological cause
  • Sacred contagion, the belief that spiritual properties pass from one entity to another
  • Complex contagion, a social networking phenomenon
  • Contagion heuristic, a psychological technique

Film and television

  • Contagion (1987 film), directed by Karl Zwicky
  • Contagion (2002 film), featuring Bruce Boxleitner
  • Contagion (2011 film), directed by Steven Soderbergh
  • "Contagion" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), 1989 TV episode

Music

  • Contagion (Oceano album), 2010
  • "Contagion", a song by Black Dahlia Murder on the 2003 album Unhallowed

Other uses

  • Contagion (novel), by Robin Cook
  • Batman: Contagion, a comic book story arc
  • Coded Arms: Contagion, a 2007 video game
  • Contagion (video game), a 2014 video game

See also

  • Contagious (disambiguation)