Decision-making processes: The case of collective movements

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 635-647

  Petit, Odile ^a,b   Bon, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Consensus; Inter individual relationships; Leadership; Self organization; Social status

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LEADERSHIP; MOVEMENT; SELF ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BEE; BODY MOVEMENT; COGNITION; COW; DECISION MAKING; DOG; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GOOSE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LEADERSHIP; MACACA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; SHEEP; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; LEADERSHIP; MOVEMENT; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953912357     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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