Repeating harmful ideas online, or regularly making fresh accusations, keeps hate groups alive.
Articles on Group behavior
Displaying all articles
A fear of missing out and a need to belong are strong motivators when it comes to scooping up goods at bargain prices.
People penalized for violating a group’s shared rules could go on to disrupt its functioning, out of revenge. Two scholars suggest a way of imposing rules.
When researchers look at CCTV footage of how people really react during earthquakes – as opposed to what they report after the fact – it looks like alerts aren’t yet inspiring protective action.
The collective behavior of robot swarms is a route to making small, simple, inexpensive robots – and offers insights into how people make group decisions and adapt to changes.
The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.
Understanding isolation’s effects on regular people, rather than those certified to have ‘the right stuff,’ will help prepare us for the future, whether another pandemic or interplanetary space travel.
Top contributors
-
Researcher, University of Iowa
-
Research Scientist and Museum Educator, Smithsonian Institution
-
Research Associate, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, and Associate Professor in Anthropology, Lehman College, CUNY
-
FNRS Research Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
-
Associate Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
-
Full Professor, Psychology and Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
-
Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University
-
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, McGill University
-
Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh