ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023
Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation.
Review in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
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- A Cognitive Computational Approach to Social and Collective Decision-Making.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Maintaining Transient Diversity Is a General Principle for Improving Collective Problem Solving.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Review
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- Minority-group incubators and majority-group reservoirs support the diffusion of climate change adaptations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Comparing Synchronicity in Body Movement among Jazz Musicians with Their Emotions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The history and welfare of working mules in the valleys of the Toubkal massif, in the High Atlas of Morocco.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks.Evolutionary human sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
We develop a conceptual framework for studying collective adaptation in complex socio-cognitive systems, driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social environments and problem structures. Going beyond searching for 'intelligent' collectives, we integrate research from different disciplines and outline modelling approaches that can be used to begin answering questions such as why collectives sometimes fail to reach seemingly obvious solutions, how they change their strategies and network structures in response to different problems and how we can anticipate and perhaps change future harmful societal trajectories. We discuss the importance of considering path dependence, lack of optimization and collective myopia to understand the sometimes counterintuitive outcomes of collective adaptation. We call for a transdisciplinary, quantitative and societally useful social science that can help us to understand our rapidly changing and ever more complex societies, avoid collective disasters and reach the full potential of our ability to organize in adaptive collectives.
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