Making better decisions in groups

A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem

(2017) Dražen Prelec et al.   NATURE

Calibration with confidence: a principled method for panel assessment

(2017) R. S. MacKay et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Neural Variability and Sampling-Based Probabilistic Representations in the Visual Cortex

(2016) Gergő Orbán et al.   NEURON

Decision Making and Sequential Sampling from Memory

(2016) Michael N. Shadlen et al.   NEURON

Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments

(2016) Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavioral contagion during learning about another agent’s risk-preferences acts on the neural representation of decision-risk

(2016) Shinsuke Suzuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Considering Too Few Alternatives: The Mental Model Theory of Extensional Reasoning

(2016) Thierry Chevalley et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Neurotic Individuals are not Creative Thinkers

(2016) Alan D. Pickering et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Bayesian Brains without Probabilities

(2016) Adam N. Sanborn et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Who Knows? Metacognitive Social Learning Strategies

(2016) Cecilia Heyes   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Approach-Induced Biases in Human Information Sampling

(2016) Laurence T. Hunt et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

How People Use Social Information to Find out What to Want in the Paradigmatic Case of Inter-temporal Preferences

(2016) Michael Moutoussis et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Are groups more or less than the sum of their members? The moderating role of individual identification

(2015) Roy F. Baumeister et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Learning-Induced Plasticity in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Preference Malleability

(2015) Mona M. Garvert et al.   NEURON

Communicating uncertainty in seasonal and interannual climate forecasts in Europe

(2015) Andrea L. Taylor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Equality bias impairs collective decision-making across cultures

(2015) Ali Mahmoodi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Group discussion improves lie detection

(2015) Nadav Klein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Informational and Normative Influences in Conformity from a Neurocomputational Perspective

(2015) Ulf Toelch et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Detection Accuracy of Collective Intelligence Assessments for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

(2015) Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers et al.   JAMA Dermatology

Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps

(2015) Lisa A. Levin et al.   PLoS One

Model-based and model-free Pavlovian reward learning: Revaluation, revision, and revelation

(2014) Peter Dayan et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

How to measure metacognition

(2014) Stephen M. Fleming et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles

(2014) Sheen S. Levine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Supra-personal cognitive control and metacognition

(2014) Nicholas Shea et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Einstein’s conversion from his static to an expanding universe

(2014) Harry Nussbaumer   European Physical Journal H

A systematic framework for functional connectivity measures

(2014) Huifang E. Wang et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Information-sharing and aggregation models for interacting minds

(2013) Piotr Migdał et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Teams Make You Smarter: How Exposure to Teams Improves Individual Decisions in Probability and Reasoning Tasks

(2013) Boris Maciejovsky et al.   MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns

(2013) Alexandre Pouget et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

In the Mind of the Market: Theory of Mind Biases Value Computation during Financial Bubbles

(2013) Benedetto De Martino et al.   NEURON

Disruption of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Decreases Model-Based in Favor of Model-free Control in Humans

(2013) Peter Smittenaar et al.   NEURON

Autonomous Mechanism of Internal Choice Estimate Underlies Decision Inertia

(2013) Rei Akaishi et al.   NEURON

Emergent Sensing of Complex Environments by Mobile Animal Groups

(2013) A. Berdahl et al.   SCIENCE

Collective enumeration.

(2012) Bahador Bahrami et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Individual Differences in Uncertainty-Driven Exploration

(2012) David Badre et al.   NEURON

What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition

(2012) B. Bahrami et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Metacognition: computation, biology and function

(2012) S. M. Fleming et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students

(2012) C. A. Moss-Racusin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When Are Two Heads Better than One and Why?

(2012) A. Koriat   SCIENCE

Evolutionary Psychology: New Perspectives on Cognition and Motivation

(2011) Leda Cosmides et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

The optimism bias

(2011) Tali Sharot   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups

(2011) I. D. Couzin et al.   SCIENCE

Does the brain calculate value?

(2011) Ivo Vlaev et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Optimally Interacting Minds

(2010) B. Bahrami et al.   SCIENCE

Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases

(2010) Thomas L. Griffiths et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Statistically optimal perception and learning: from behavior to neural representations

(2010) József Fiser et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Prefrontal and striatal dopaminergic genes predict individual differences in exploration and exploitation

(2009) Michael J Frank et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Herding in humans

(2009) Ramsey M. Raafat et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The description–experience gap in risky choice

(2009) Ralph Hertwig et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Swarm intelligence in animals and humans

(2009) Jens Krause et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making

(2008) Antonio Rangel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behaviour in humans

(2008) J. R.G Dyer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The trouble with overconfidence.

(2008) Don A. Moore et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES