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Banking confidence shaken after series of failures | Learn English expression 'herd mentality'

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The Herd Mentality

The herd mentality is a term we use to describe the behavior of crowds. When people follow the crowd, especially for something new, they display the herd mentality. GameStop became popular on Reddit because it was popular with other people. This can be good or bad, but we often use this term when individual people do things that they wouldn't necessarily do by themselves.

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