How does an audience collectively decide the applause is over?

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I think most people figure they’ll clap until the applause dies down. But if everyone were to think like that we would clap forever. How does the audience hive mind, for lack of a better term, stop the applause?

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Researchers have found that applause spreads like a ‘disease’ though an audience, with applause duration often not connected to the quality of the performance.

You can compare the stoping of it to a pack of fish that slow down together, there is the first one who stops than the other and so on like a domino

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