People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

There's something magnetic about a group of people looking in the same direction—others will follow their gazes to see what has caught their attention. But is the same true for animals like pigeons?

Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) are collaborating with colleagues from Frankfurt/Main, Oxford and Würzburg to investigate how the complex, cooperative behavior of honeybees ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

Fig. 2: Collective Intelligence expands the perceptual field of a group of cells beyond the capacity of any individual, expanding their problem solving ability. An uncontroversial aspect of our view ...

Boredom is a common human experience that emerges in many situations of our daily life 1,2 and across various cultures 3. Furthermore, boredom has been characterized as an aversive mental state, ...

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We are constantly surrounded by temptations that are not in our best interest. That is, they are often neither in the best interest of us individually (e.g., succumbing to a sugar intake that is ...

Opening new possibilities in collective behavior and robotics By turning collective behavior into something that can be decoded, this approach offers practical engineering and scientific benefits. In ...

The impact of this experience is greater than people realize, and experts agree it’s incredibly beneficial.