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20152025
most citedThe social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

1.5k citations

8 papers

econ.GN2025★ 1 cited

The Theory of Economic Complexity

César A. Hidalgo, Viktor Stojkoski

We provide a mechanistic foundation for economic complexity methods. In our model, an economy's ability to produce an activity depends on the joint presence of required capabilitie…

cs.SI2025★ 2 cited

Social Influence Distorts Ratings in Online Interfaces

Marina Kontalexi, Alexandros Gelastopoulos, Pantelis P. Analytis

Theoretical work on sequential choice and large-scale experiments in online ranking and voting systems has demonstrated that social influence can have a drastic impact on social an…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

The marginal majority effect: when social influence produces lock-in

Alexandros Gelastopoulos, Pantelis P. Analytis, Gaël Le Mens +1

People are influenced by the choices of others, a phenomenon observed across contexts in the social and behavioral sciences. Social influence can lock in an initial popularity adva…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 38 cited

Intercity connectivity and urban innovation

Xiaofan Liang, César A. Hidalgo, Pierre-Alexandre Balland +2

Urban outputs, from economy to innovation, are known to grow as a power of a city's population. But, since large cities tend to be central in transportation and communication netwo…

cs.CY2023★ 121 cited

Machine Culture

Levin Brinkmann, Fabian Baumann, Jean-François Bonnefon +12

The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notio…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 129 cited

How social information can improve estimation accuracy in human groups

Bertrand Jayles, Hye-rin Kim, Ramón Escobedo +5

In our digital and connected societies, the development of social networks, online shopping, and reputation systems raises the question of how individuals use social information, a…

cs.AI2016★ 2 cited

Experimental Assessment of Aggregation Principles in Argumentation-enabled Collective Intelligence

Edmond Awad, Jean-François Bonnefon, Martin Caminada +2

On the Web, there is always a need to aggregate opinions from the crowd (as in posts, social networks, forums, etc.). Different mechanisms have been implemented to capture these op…

cs.CY2015★ 1.5k cited

The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, Iyad Rahwan

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils-for example, running over pedestrians or sacrificing itself and…