Journal
BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
Volume 84, Issue 3, Pages 675-677Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.03.005
Keywords
Activity synchronisation; Aggregation rules; Collective decisions; Democracy; Group decisions; Sexual segregation; Decision sharing; Social choice theory
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- Royal Society
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A group of animals can only move cohesively. if group members somehow reach a consensus about the timing (e.g., start) and the spatial direction/destination of the collective movement. Timing and spatial decisions usually differ with respect to the continuity of their cost/benefit distribution in such a way that, in principle. compromises are much more feasible in timing decision (e.g.. median preferred time) than they are in spatial decisions. The consequence is that consensus costs connected to collective timing decisions are usually less skewed amongst group members than are consensus costs connected to spatial decisions. This, in turn, influences the evolution of decision sharing: sharing in timing decisions is most likely to evolve when conflicts are high relative to group cohesion benefits, while sharing in spatial decisions is most likely to evolve in the opposite situation. We discuss the implications of these differences for the study of collective movement decisions. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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