Ever wonder why you feel compelled to follow the crowd, even when you kind of… don’t want to? Do you ever see a new trend and feel frustrated at how quick they just show up, one after another? I’m right there with you - why do we follow trends, and how did they get to be so prominent and persuasive? Tune in to today’s episode, where we look at the psychological and biological reasoning behind why we partake in trends, and the history as to how trends we know and love/hate came to be!

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Resources:

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trend

• https://www.colorado.edu/classics/2018/06/18/womens-dress-archaic-greece-peplos-chiton-and-himation

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/social-trend

• https://ruhighlander.org/home/2024/6/20/the-psychology-behind-trends

• https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22581-dopamine

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5861725/

  https://www.psychologs.com/the-psychology-behind-viral-trends-and-why-we-follow-them/?srsltid=AfmBOophMZGMXAIJLL0zN_K5qkRq0C1hWe1WqaMTkFJgyD_z9aojq7Hi

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-realities-of-refugee-screening/202504/why-we-fall-for-social-media-trends

• https://fashionispsychology.com/the-psychology-behind-trend-cycles-why-we-cant-resist-the-latest-fashion-fads/

• https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/evolution-of-social-trends

• https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/industrialization-labor-and-life/

• https://www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-technology

• https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/Information-Age

• https://heuritech.com/articles/five-stages-of-fashion-trend-life-cycle/