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Episode 22: Lee Kravetz On Contagious Ideas


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Can you “catch” a behavior like you’d catch a cold? Lee Kravetz, co-author of Supersurvivors, thinks so. This week, he joins the GrottoPod to explain how. Kravetz (also a producer of our podcast) lays it out in his new book, Strange Contagion, which is released this week. Strange Contagion explores how social contagion -- communicable ideas, thoughts and actions -- turned volatile in Kravetz’s home of Palo Alto, California, creating a rash of teenage suicides. He also looks at how a similar kind of contagion helped the community recover from those tragedies.
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