| 单词 | availability cascade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasavailability cascade availability cascade n. Psychology a process whereby a belief or idea (esp. one which is a cause of anxiety), is passed on and amplified through news reports, social media, etc.,causing it to be increasingly accepted as likely or true. ΚΠ 1997 C. R. Sunstein in Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 64 1188 People tend to think that risks are more serious when an incident is readily called to mind or ‘available’... ‘Availability cascades’ can produce a large demand for law. 1999 T. Kuran & C. R. Sunstein in Stanford Law Rev. 51 683 Availability entrepreneurs—activists who manipulate the content of public discourse—strive to trigger availability cascades likely to advance their agendas. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Jan. d4/2 The availability cascade is a self-perpetuating process: the more attention a danger gets, the more worried people become, leading to more news coverage and more fear. 2020 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 May 15 [The corporation's] critics accuse it of being anti-independence and the result is what psychologists call an availability cascade: a belief that grows because of the number of people saying it. < as lemmas |
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