Animals often travel in groups, and their navigational decisions can be influenced by social
interactions. Both theory and empirical observations suggest that such collective navigation …

Although the traits emerged in a mass gathering are often non-deliberative, the act of mass
impulse may lead to irrevocable crowd disasters. The two-fold increase of carnage in crowd …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the
behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

A ubiquitous type of collective behavior and decision-making is the coordinated motion of
bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds. Collective decisions to move in the same …

Pedestrians often need to decide between different routes they can use to reach their
intended destinations, both during emergencies and in their daily lives. This route-choice …

Brain evolution has often been correlated with the cognitive demands of social life. Further
progress depends on our ability to link cognitive processes to corresponding brain part sizes …

The regularity of musical beat makes it a powerful stimulus promoting movement synchrony
among people. Synchrony can increase interpersonal trust, affiliation, and cooperation …

Fish show rapid movements in various behavioral activities or associated with the presence
of food. However, in periods of rapid movement, the rate at which occlusion occurs among …