Collective decision making in human and non-human animals. Senior Researcher @arc-mpib.bsky.social | PI SCIoI | Guest researcher @leibnizigb.bsky.social |
Website: ralfkurvers.com/ | www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/person/93403/2549
Ralf Kurvers
Using a weight-of-advice task, we found that reliance on social information is highest at age 6, declines through late adolescence and then rises slowly into adulthood. This replicates across participants from 15+ countries, and for females and males.
Ralf Kurvers
Here is @alexschakowski.bsky.social on social learning strategies in Finnish fishing competitions
My Working Life article @science.org - When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
This professor learned “to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel,” he writes
Huge collaborative effort w Zhan Feng, Wouter van den Bos, Deyan Dzhurov, @andgr.bsky.social, Mehdi Moussaïd, @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social, @alantump.bsky.social, Katsumi Watanabe
Strategic social information use emerged early in life: participants at all ages used social information most when it was close to their own belief, supported by convergent social inputs, and came from young adults.
New preprint led by @lucasmolleman.bsky.social investigates social information use across the human lifespan. Testing >40,000 participants aged 6-80 in museums in Berlin and Japan. psyarxiv.com/hec96
Ralf Kurvers
CondeNanoLab
Alex Mesoudi
New paper out today in Nat Ecol Evol! On how within- and between-group competition jointly shape ranging in wild capuchins, and how the environment tips the balance. Thread below 🐒
Ralf Kurvers
Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important
Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision
doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky
HT @science.org
Ralf Kurvers
🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Here's the short version. 1/9
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Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.
