Contagion
# Contagion

Contagion may refer to:

## Medicine

* Contagious disease

## Social science

* 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
