Consensus decision making in human crowds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 461-470

  Dyer, John R G ^a   Ioannou, Christos C ^a   Morrell, Lesley J ^a   Croft, Darren P ^a,b   Couzin, Iain D ^c,d   Waters, Dean A ^a   Krause, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collective behaviour; consensus decision making; human crowd; information transfer; leadership

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMINID; INFORMATION; LEADERSHIP; PLANNING PROCESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38649107715     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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