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Tipping points among social learners: Tools from varied disciplines

Author(s) -

R. Alexander Bentley,

Michael J. O’Brien

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

current zoology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.971

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 2058-5888

pISSN - 1674-5507

DOI - 10.1093/czoolo/58.2.298

Subject(s) - collective behavior , behavioural sciences , animal behavior , human animal , non human , sociology , human science , psychology , human behavior , social psychology , social science , epistemology , ecology , biology , zoology , livestock , philosophy

There is a long and rich tradition in the social sciences of using models of collective behavior in animals as jump- ing-off points for the study of human behavior, including collective human behavior. Here, we come at the problem in a slightly different fashion. We ask whether models of collective human behavior have anything to offer those who study animal behavior. Our brief example of tipping points, a model first developed in the physical sciences and later used in the social sciences, suggests that the analysis of human collective behavior does indeed have considerable to offer (Current Zoology 58 (2): 298306, 2012).

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