[Sci-all-l] Group decision making in humans and animals

[Flora Grabowska]

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1518
Group decision making in humans and animals - special issue March 2009


Humans make many decisions collectively, whether they choose a 
restaurant with friends; elect a political leader; or decide on 
international actions to tackle climate change. We might be less 
aware of it, but group decisions are just as important for social 
animals. Social animals collectively decide about communal movements, 
group activities, common nest sides or other, cooperative enterprises 
that all crucially effect their survival and reproduction. While 
human group decisions have been studied for millenia, the study of 
animal group decisions is relatively young, but it is now expanding 
rapidly. It emerges that group decisions in animals pose many similar 
questions to those in humans. The purpose of the present issue is to 
bring together, for the first time, approaches in the social and 
natural sciences on group decision making. The contributions to this 
issue demonstrate convincingly that each discipline can benefit from 
being introduced, by the other, to key ideas and findings and to 
successful methods.

Issue edited and complied by Larissa Conradt and Christian List.

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