The origin of population-scale coordination has puzzled philosophers and scientists for
centuries. Recently, game theory, evolutionary approaches and complex systems science …

How do shared conventions emerge in complex decentralized social systems? This
question engages fields as diverse as linguistics, sociology, and cognitive science. Previous …

Although several mechanisms can promote cooperative behavior, there is no general
consensus about why cooperation survives when the most profitable action for an individual …

How can minorities of individuals overturn social conventions? The theory of critical mass
states that when a committed minority reaches a critical size, a cascade of behavioural …

What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to
answer than the long-standing question, what are the forces that keep our world together …

How does the spread of behavior affect consensus-based collective decision-making among
animals, humans or swarming robots? In prior research, such propagation of behavior on …

We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a
small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents who consistently proselytize the …

We study the dynamics of the Naming Game (Baronchelli et al. in J Stat Mech Theory Exp
P06014, 2006b) in empirical social networks. This stylized agent-based model captures …

Populations of mobile and communicating agents describe a vast array of technological and
natural systems, ranging from sensor networks to animal groups. Here, we investigate how a …

Theoretical models of critical mass have shown how minority groups can initiate social
change dynamics in the emergence of new social conventions. Here, we study an artificial …