Humans routinely make many decisions collectively, whether they choose a restaurant with
friends, elect political leaders or decide actions to tackle international problems, such as …

Existing approaches within leadership studies often share a bias towards industrialized
societies and lack broader cross-cultural and ethological reference. Meanwhile, cross …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Group-living animals routinely have to reach a consensus decision and choose between
mutually exclusive actions in order to coordinate their activities and benefit from sociality [1 …

Besides focusing on the adaptive significance of collective movements, it is crucial to study
the mechanisms and dynamics of decision-making processes at the individual level …

In despotically driven animal societies, one or a few individuals tend to have a
disproportionate influence on group decision-making and actions. However, global …

Hierarchical organization is widespread in the societies of humans and other animals, both
in social structure and in decision-making contexts. In the case of collective motion, the …

Collective decision-making is a daily occurrence in the lives of many group-living animals,
and can have critical consequences for the fitness of individuals. Understanding how …

Primate groups need to remain coordinated in their activities and collectively decide when
and where to travel if they are to accrue the benefits and minimize the costs of sociality. The …