Deciding group movements: Where and when to go

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 675-677

  Conradt, Larissa ^a   Roper, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity synchronisation; Aggregation rules; Collective decisions; Decision sharing; Democracy; Group decisions; Sexual segregation; Social choice theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; SOCIAL THEORY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; LEADERSHIP; NONHUMAN; REST; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESSES; MOVEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77953913178     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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