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: The collective dynamics underlying personal and social information integration
• Project 34: Weighing personal and social information in cooperative problem solving
• Project 51: Navigating the explore-exploit trade off in collective search
• Project 34: Weighing personal and social information in cooperative problem solving
• Project 51: Navigating the explore-exploit trade off in collective search
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Kuroda, K., Tump, A. N., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2025). Individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off influence social decision-making in dyads. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2051), 20251077. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1077
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Gollwitzer, A., Tump, A. N., Martel, C., Deffner, D., Sultan, M., Kurvers, R., & Hertwig, R. (2025). Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of False News Sharing: Which Interventions Work Best, for Whom, and Why. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pxn29_v2
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Tump, A. N., Wollny-Huttarsch, D., Molleman, L., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Earlier social information has a stronger influence on judgments. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 105. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50345-4
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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, 12(1), 22416. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26209-8
Hansen, M. J., Krause, S., Dhellemmes, F., Pacher, K., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Domenici, P., & Krause, J. (2022). Mechanisms of prey division in striped marlin, a marine group hunting predator. Communications Biology, 5(1), 1161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03951-3
Tump, A. N., Wolf, M., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2022). Avoiding costly mistakes in groups: The evolution of error management in collective decision making. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(8), e1010442. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010442
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