ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Stewardship of global collective behavior.
Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation.Nature communications · 2022Pooled it
- Bio-inspired decision making in robot swarms under biases.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Insights from climate psychology for misinformation research.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Understanding Collective Human Behavior in Social Media Networks Via the Dynamical Hypothesis: Applications to Radicalization and Conspiratorial Beliefs.Topics in cognitive science · 2026Review
- From the Selfish Gene to the "We": Cooperation Often Needs Suppressors.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026Review
- SHARP: a hybrid metaheuristic approach for intelligent robotic path planning.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Integrating behavioural experimental findings into dynamical models to inform social change interventions.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
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- Predicting system dynamics of pervasive growth patterns in complex systems.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Designing social media content recommendation algorithms for societal good.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Multiscale synchronisation dynamics reveals the impact of an improvisatory approach to performance on music experience.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Understanding collective behavior in biological systems through potential field mechanisms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Illusory implications: incidental exposure to ideas can induce beliefs.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Echo chamber formation sharpened by priority users.iScience · 2024Article
- A Survey of Advanced Border Gateway Protocol Attack Detection Techniques.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A new sociology of humans and machines.Nature human behaviour · 2024Review
- How large language models can reshape collective intelligence.Nature human behaviour · 2024Review
- Social Drivers and Algorithmic Mechanisms on Digital Media.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Review
- Anticonformists catalyze societal transitions and facilitate the expression of evolving preferences.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
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Abstract
Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share information. In humans, information flows were initially shaped by natural selection yet are increasingly structured by emerging communication technologies. Our larger, more complex social networks now transfer high-fidelity information over vast distances at low cost. The digital age and the rise of social media have accelerated changes to our social systems, with poorly understood functional consequences. This gap in our knowledge represents a principal challenge to scientific progress, democracy, and actions to address global crises. We argue that the study of collective behavior must rise to a "crisis discipline" just as medicine, conservation, and climate science have, with a focus on providing actionable insight to policymakers and regulators for the stewardship of social systems.
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