And the fall in the euro now looks very much like herd behavior.

A group of animals fleeing from a predator shows the nature of herd behavior.

Hey and Morone (2004) analyzed a model of herd behavior in a market context.

The first of these strands is that on herd behavior in a non-market context.

Sporting events can also produce violent episodes of herd behavior.

Other thinkers apply the concept as a symptom of herd behavior or mob mentality.

If such "herd behavior" causes prices to spiral up far above the true value of the assets, a crash may become inevitable.

It may be comforting to believe that herd behavior makes sense from the perspective of the sheep.

I think this has more to do with herd behaviour than with any kind of conscious consideration.

People who train horses first have to educate them that some normal herd behavior is inappropriate around humans.