Wild animals suppress the spread of socially transmitted misinformation.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the mechanisms by which information and misinformation spread through groups of individual actors is essential to the prediction of phenomena ranging from coordinated group behaviors to misinformation epidemics. Transmission of information through groups depends on the rules that individuals use to transform the perceived actions of others into their own behaviors. Because it is often not possible to directly infer decision-making strategies in situ, most studies of behavioral spread assume that individuals make decisions by pooling or averaging the actions or behavioral states of neighbors. However, whether individuals may instead adopt more sophisticated strategies that exploit socially transmitted information, while remaining robust to misinformation, is unknown. Here, we

SUBMITTER: Fahimipour AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083541 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature