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SUBMITTER: Calvo Martin M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937323 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calvo Martín Mariano M Nicolis Stamatios C SC Planas-Sitjà Isaac I Deneubourg Jean-Louis JL
Scientific reports 20191230 1
In collective decision-making, when confronted with different options, groups usually show a more marked preference for one of the options than do isolated individuals. This results from the amplification of individual preferences by social interactions within the group. We show, in an unusual counter-example, that when facing a binary choice between shelters with different relative humidities, isolated cockroaches of the species Periplaneta americana select the wettest shelter, while groups sel ...[more]