Accurate decisions in an uncertain world: collective cognition increases true positives while decreasing false positives

Quorum Decision-Making in Foraging Fish Shoals

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How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect

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Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

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Models in animal collective decision-making: information uncertainty and conflicting preferences

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Personality predicts the use of social information

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Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows

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Speed–accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making

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Swarm intelligence in animals and humans

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Speed versus accuracy in decision-making ants: expediting politics and policy implementation

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Quorum responses and consensus decision making

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Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behaviour in humans

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Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

(2008) A. J. W. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES