In any society, is the way in which individuals interact, intentionally or unintentionally,
designed to maximize global benefit, or does it result in a fundamentally non-egalitarian …

Human populations exhibit complex behaviors—characterized by long-range correlations
and surges in activity—across a range of social, political, and technological contexts. Yet it …

In many aspects of life on earth, individuals may engage in cooperation with others to
contribute towards a goal they may share, which can also ensure self-preservation. In …

In this paper we propose a dynamical interpretation of the sociological distinction between
large and small groups of interacting individuals. In the former case individual behaviors are …

Complex systems—when treated as systems accessible to natural sciences—pose
tremendous requirements on data. Usually these requirements obstruct a scientific …

Foraging is a widespread behavior, and being part of a group may bring several benefits
compared to solitary foraging, such as collective pooling of information and reducing …

We review an empirically grounded approach to studying the emergence of collective
properties from individual interactions in social dynamics. When individual decision-making …

In many biological systems, the functional behavior of a group is collectively computed by
the system's individual components. An example is the brain's ability to make decisions via …

Humans and other animals often follow the decisions made by others because these are
indicative of the quality of possible choices, resulting in 'social response rules', that is …

Recent empirical studies suggest that heavy-tailed distributions of human activities are
universal in real social dynamics [L. Muchnik, S. Pei, LC Parra, SDS Reis, JS Andrade Jr., S …