Novel aggressive tactics spread across populations through modeled example.
Evidence
Modeling plays an especially significant role in the rapid spread of aggressive tactics under conditions of civil strife. Airline hijacking is a striking example. Air piracy was unheard of in the United States until an airliner was hijacked to Havana in 1961. Prior to that incident, Cubans had been hijacking planes to Miami. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 750
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to Meme Theory and to how media modeling drives contagion of behavior — parallels to violence contagion literature.
Related
- Modeling drives rapid spread of aggressive tactics during civil strife (similarity 0.92)
- Highly publicized novel aggressive acts trigger copycat imitations (similarity 0.82)
- Terrorist tactics spread and decline through social contagion like other collective fads. (similarity 0.81)
- A single social model can transmit behavior to vast dispersed populations at once (similarity 0.78)