Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups

Science

Volumn 334, Issue 6062, 2011, Pages 1578-1580

  Couzin, Iain D ^a   Ioannou, Christos C ^a,e   Demirel, Güven ^b   Gross, Thilo ^b,e   Torney, Colin J ^a   Hartnett, Andrew ^a   Conradt, Larissa ^c,f   Levin, Simon A ^a   Leonard, Naomi E ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; INHIBITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; FISH; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 83755169212     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1210280     Document Type: Article

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