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Fishing out collective memory of migratory schools [PDF]
, 2013 Animals form groups for many reasons but there are costs andbenefit associated with group formation. One of the benefits is collectivememory. In groups on the move, social interactions play a crucialrole in the cohesion and the ability to make consensus ...
Marsili, M. +10 more
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Collective behavior of “flexicles”
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesIn recent years the functionality of synthetic active microparticles has edged even closer to that of their biological counterparts. However, we still lack the understanding needed to recreate at the microscale key features of autonomous behavior exhibited by microorganisms or swarms of macroscopic robots.
Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer +1 more
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Collective labour supply with children [PDF]
, 2002 We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption. We show how this model allows to analyze welfare consequences of policies aimed at changing the distribution of power within the household.
Chiappori, Pierre-André +9 more
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Risk and retribution: how punishment uncertainty weakens norms of cooperationRisk and retribution: how punishment uncertainty weakens norms of cooperation [PDF]
Royal Society Open SciencePunishment can sustain cooperation, but in real-world settings, sanctions are often inconsistently applied. We tested how punishment uncertainty affects cooperation when individuals can choose between institutions with predictable or unpredictable ...
Vincent Oberhauser +2 more
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Social networks predict the life and death of honey bees
Nature Communications, 2021 Honey bee workers take on different tasks for the colony as they age. Here, the authors develop a method to extract a descriptor of the individuals’ social networks and show that interaction patterns predict task allocation and distinguish different ...
Benjamin Wild +7 more
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Social mindfulness is normative when costs are low, but rapidly declines with increases in costs
Judgment and Decision Making, 2021 As a complement to high-cost cooperation as assessed in economic games, the concept of social mindfulness focuses on low-cost acts of kindness. While social mindfulness seems quite natural, performed by many most of the time (reaching a level of 60–70 ...
Christoph Engel, Paul A. M. Van Lange
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, 2023 Climate change is a threat whose mitigation can be enhanced by collective environmental protest behavior, so understanding the motivation for collective environmental protests is important.
Sargisson, Rebecca J., Holsten, Lotta
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Everyone knows what behavior is but they just don’t agree on it
iScience, 2023 Summary: Studying “behavior” lies at the heart of many disciplines. Nevertheless, academics rarely provide an explicit definition of what “behavior” actually is. What range of definitions do people use, and how does that vary across disciplines?
Adam J. Calhoun, Ahmed El Hady
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Sensory collectives in natural systems
eLife, 2023 Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely incorporated into the emerging field of collective behaviour, which studies the ...
Hannah J Williams +13 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine +17 more
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