Ralf Kurvers
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Ralf Kurvers is a behavioural biologist working on individual and collective decision-making in human and non-human animals. His work links information processing and decision making at the individual level, to the spread of information through social interactions, and emerging collective responses.
Projects
Ralf Kurvers is member of Project 26, Project 34, Project 51.
Publications +
Tump, A. N., Wollny-Hutarsch, D., Molleman, L., & Kurvers, R. H. (2024). Earlier social information has a stronger influence on judgments. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50345-4
Mezey, D., Deffner, D., Kurvers, R. H., & Romanczuk, P. (2024). Visual social information use in collective foraging. PLoS Computational Biology, 20, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012087
Deffner, D., Mezey, D., Kahl, B., Schakowski, A., Romanczuk, P., Wu, C. M., & Kurvers, R. (2024). Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47010-3
Wu, C., Deffner, D., Kahl, B., Meder, B., Ho, M., & Kurvers, R. (2024). Visual-spatial dynamics drive adaptive social learning in immersive environments. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.28.546887
Tump, A., Deffner, D., Pleskac, T., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. (2023). A cognitive computational approach to social and collective decision-making. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231186964
Kurvers, R. H., Nuzzolese, A. G., Russo, A., Barabucci, G., Herzog, S. M., & Trianni, V. (2023). Automating hybrid collective intelligence in open-ended medical diagnostics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221473120
Tump, A. N., Wolf, M., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. (2022). Avoiding costly mistakes in groups: The evolution of error management in collective decision making. PLOS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010442
Sultan, M., Tump, A. N., Geers, M., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2022). Time Pressure Reduces Misinformation Discrimination Ability But Does Not Alter Response Bias. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26209-8
Hansen, M., Krause, S., Dhellemmes, F., Pacher, K., Kurvers, R., Domenici, P., & Krause, J. (2022). Mechanisms of prey division in striped marlin, a marine group hunting predator. Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03951-3
Tump, A., Pleskac, T., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. (2022). How the cognitive mechanisms underlying fast choices influence information spread and response bias amplification in groups. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 44, 658–664. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m540872#main
Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Herzog, S. M., Hertwig, R., Krause, J., & Wolf, M. (2021). Pooling decisions decreases variation in response bias and accuracy. IScience, 24(7), 102740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102740
Demandt, N., Bierbach, D., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Krause, J., Kurtz, J., & Scharsack, J. P. (2021). Parasite infection impairs the shoaling behaviour of uninfected shoal members under predator attack. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03080-7
Tump, A. N., Pleskac, T. J., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2020). Wise or mad crowds? The cognitive mechanisms underlying information cascades. Science Advances, 6(29), eabb0266. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0266
Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Herzog, S. M., Hertwig, R., Krause, J., Moussaid, M., Argenziano, G., Zalaudek, I., Carney, P. A., & Wolf, M. (2019). How to detect high-performing individuals and groups: Decision similarity predicts accuracy. Science Advances, 5(11), eaaw9011. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw9011
For the Public -
Ralf Kurvers at “Meet the Scientist”, Humboldt Forum
