Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups

D Deffner, D Mezey, B Kahl, A Schakowski… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Collective dynamics emerge from countless individual decisions. Yet, we poorly understand
the processes governing dynamically-interacting individuals in human collectives under …

A social foraging trade-off in echolocating bats reveals that they benefit from some conspecifics but are impaired when many are around

K Krivoruchko, JC Koblitz, A Goldshtein… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Social foraging is very common in the animal kingdom. Numerous studies have documented
collective foraging in various species and many reported the attraction of various species to …

[HTML][HTML] Training pre-service teachers to deal with cyberbullying: Collective intelligence as a mode of learning

PB Alcaine, EV Sánchez, SO Hernández… - Computers & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Collective intelligence is a theoretical construct that focuses on results stemming from a
workgroup dealing with complex tasks. Our goal was to determine whether a group of pre …

Reduced effects of social feedback on learning in Turner syndrome

H Björlin Avdic, C Strannegård, H Engberg… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Turner syndrome is a genetic condition caused by a complete or partial loss of one of the X
chromosomes. Previous studies indicate that Turner syndrome is associated with challenges …

Visual social information use in collective foraging

D Mezey, D Deffner, RHJM Kurvers… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Collective dynamics emerge from individual-level decisions, yet we still poorly understand
the link between individual-level decision-making processes and collective outcomes in …

Evolutionary emergence of collective intelligence in large groups of students

S Orejudo, J Cano-Escoriaza… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of collective intelligence has been studied in much greater detail in small
groups than in larger ones. Nevertheless, in groups of several hundreds or thousands of …

Visual-spatial dynamics drive adaptive social learning in immersive environments

CM Wu, D Deffner, B Kahl, B Meder, MH Ho… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Humans are uniquely capable social learners. Our capacity to learn from others across short
and long timescales is a driving force behind the success of our species. Yet there are …

Group coordination catalyzes individual and cultural intelligence

CM Wu, R Dale, RD Hawkins - Open Mind, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
A large program of research has aimed to ground large-scale cultural phenomena in
processes taking place within individual minds. For example, investigating whether …

Interaction among participants in a collective intelligence experiment: an emotional approach

S Orejudo, R Lozano-Blasco, P Bautista… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The construct of collective intelligence assumes that groups have a better
capacity than individuals to deal with complex, poorly defined problems. The digital domain …

Balancing individual and collective strategies: A new approach in metaheuristic optimization

E Cuevas, M Vásquez, K Avila, A Rodriguez… - … and Computers in …, 2025 - Elsevier
Metaheuristic approaches commonly disregard the individual strategies of each agent within
a population, focusing primarily on the collective best solution discovered so far. While this …