Leadership and social information use in human crowds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 895-901

  Faria, Jolyon J ^a   Dyer, John R G ^a   Tosh, Colin R ^a   Krause, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

collective animal behaviour; group; human; inadvertent social cue; information; leadership

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEADERSHIP; PREDATOR; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77949540680     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.039     Document Type: Article

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