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What shapes social decision making?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2014

Simon M. Reader  and
Ioannis Leris
Simon M. Reader
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, H3A 1B1, Canada. [email protected]://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/reader/
Ioannis Leris
Affiliation:
Behavioural Biology, Department of Biology, and Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. [email protected]
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Abstract

Outcome transparency and the weight given to social information both play important roles in decision making, but we argue that an overarching influence is the degree to which individuals can and do gather information. Evolution, experience, and development may shape individual specializations in social decision making that carry over across contexts, and these individual differences may influence collective behavior and cultural evolution.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 96 - 97
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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