List of works - Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers

Accurate decisions in an uncertain world: collective cognition increases true positives while decreasing false positives.

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Artificial Light at Night Affects Emergence from a Refuge and Space Use in Guppies

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments

scientific article (publication date: 2 August 2016)

Building Global Societies on Collective Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities

scientific article published in 2022

Causal evidence for the adaptive benefits of social foraging in the wild

scientific article published on 20 January 2021

Collective cognition in humans: groups outperform their best members in a sentence reconstruction task

scientific article

Collective decision making in guppies: a cross-population comparison study in the wild ⬇️

scientific article published in 2017

Collective intelligence meets medical decision-making: the collective outperforms the best radiologist

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Combining independent decisions increases diagnostic accuracy of reading lumbosacral radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Contrasting context dependence of familiarity and kinship in animal social networks

Correction to 'Proto-cooperation: group hunting sailfish improve hunting success by alternating attacks on grouping prey'.

scientific article

Crowd control: Reducing individual estimation bias by sharing biased social information

scientific article published on 29 November 2021

Detection Accuracy of Collective Intelligence Assessments for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Experimental manipulation of testosterone and condition during molt affects activity and vocalizations of male blue tits.

scientific article published on 4 April 2008

Females facilitate male food patch discovery in a wild fish population

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Genetic consequences of breaking migratory traditions in barnacle geese Branta leucopsis.

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

How large language models can reshape collective intelligence

scientific article published on 20 September 2024

How sailfish use their bills to capture schooling prey.

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

How to detect high-performing individuals and groups: Decision similarity predicts accuracy

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Identification of acutely sick people: individual differences and social information use

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Individual- and population-level drivers of consistent foraging success across environments

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Injury-mediated decrease in locomotor performance increases predation risk in schooling fish

scientific article

Maximum swimming speeds of sailfish and three other large marine predatory fish species based on muscle contraction time and stride length: a myth revisited.

scientific article

Mechanisms of prey division in striped marlin, a marine group hunting predator

scientific article published in 2022

No evidence for general condition-dependence of structural plumage colour in blue tits: an experiment.

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior of Sailfish during Predator-Prey Interactions using High-Speed Video and Accelerometry

scientific article

Parasite-infected sticklebacks increase the risk-taking behaviour of uninfected group members

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Personality predicts the use of social information.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Proto-cooperation: group hunting sailfish improve hunting success by alternating attacks on grouping prey. ⬇️

scientific article published in November 2016

Quorums enable optimal pooling of independent judgements in biological systems

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Season-specific carryover of early life associations in a monogamous bird species

scientific article published in June 2020

Self-organized flexible leadership promotes collective intelligence in human groups

scientific article

The Evolution of Lateralization in Group Hunting Sailfish

scientific article

The Potential of Collective Intelligence in Emergency Medicine: Pooling Medical Students' Independent Decisions Improves Diagnostic Performance.

scientific article published on March 2017

The balance of the sexes

scientific article published on 7 October 2022

The effect of boldness on decision-making in barnacle geese is group-size-dependent. ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2010

The evolutionary and ecological consequences of animal social networks: emerging issues.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Wise or mad crowds? The cognitive mechanisms underlying information cascades

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

List of works by Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers

Accurate decisions in an uncertain world: collective cognition increases true positives while decreasing false positives.

Artificial Light at Night Affects Emergence from a Refuge and Space Use in Guppies

Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments

Building Global Societies on Collective Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities

Causal evidence for the adaptive benefits of social foraging in the wild

Collective cognition in humans: groups outperform their best members in a sentence reconstruction task

Collective decision making in guppies: a cross-population comparison study in the wild ⬇️

Collective intelligence meets medical decision-making: the collective outperforms the best radiologist

Combining independent decisions increases diagnostic accuracy of reading lumbosacral radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging.

Contrasting context dependence of familiarity and kinship in animal social networks

Correction to 'Proto-cooperation: group hunting sailfish improve hunting success by alternating attacks on grouping prey'.

Crowd control: Reducing individual estimation bias by sharing biased social information

Detection Accuracy of Collective Intelligence Assessments for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

Experimental manipulation of testosterone and condition during molt affects activity and vocalizations of male blue tits.

Females facilitate male food patch discovery in a wild fish population

Genetic consequences of breaking migratory traditions in barnacle geese Branta leucopsis.

How large language models can reshape collective intelligence

How sailfish use their bills to capture schooling prey.

How to detect high-performing individuals and groups: Decision similarity predicts accuracy

Identification of acutely sick people: individual differences and social information use

Individual- and population-level drivers of consistent foraging success across environments

Injury-mediated decrease in locomotor performance increases predation risk in schooling fish

Maximum swimming speeds of sailfish and three other large marine predatory fish species based on muscle contraction time and stride length: a myth revisited.

Mechanisms of prey division in striped marlin, a marine group hunting predator

No evidence for general condition-dependence of structural plumage colour in blue tits: an experiment.

Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior of Sailfish during Predator-Prey Interactions using High-Speed Video and Accelerometry

Parasite-infected sticklebacks increase the risk-taking behaviour of uninfected group members

Personality predicts the use of social information.

Proto-cooperation: group hunting sailfish improve hunting success by alternating attacks on grouping prey. ⬇️

Quorums enable optimal pooling of independent judgements in biological systems

Season-specific carryover of early life associations in a monogamous bird species

Self-organized flexible leadership promotes collective intelligence in human groups

The Evolution of Lateralization in Group Hunting Sailfish

The Potential of Collective Intelligence in Emergency Medicine: Pooling Medical Students' Independent Decisions Improves Diagnostic Performance.

The balance of the sexes

The effect of boldness on decision-making in barnacle geese is group-size-dependent. ⬇️

The evolutionary and ecological consequences of animal social networks: emerging issues.

Wise or mad crowds? The cognitive mechanisms underlying information cascades