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Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds

2018-05-21

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Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective ‘wisdom’ and other times maladaptive ‘herding’ is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by the social learning strategies deployed. We examined the patterns of human social learning through an interactive online experiment with 699 participants, varying both task uncertainty and group size, then used hierarchical Bayesian...

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Literature Corpus work: 7bf4f4d0-b36a-57a4-a7eb-08fd397695cd
DOI: 10.1101/326637

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