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Lévy Flights of the Collective Imagination
William H. W. Thompson, Zachary Wojtowicz, Simon DeDeo
We present a structured random-walk model that captures key aspects of how people communicate in groups. Our model takes the form of a correlated Lévy flight that quantifies the ba…
Aggression heuristics underlie animal dominance hierarchies and provide evidence of group-level social information
Elizabeth A. Hobson, Dan Mønster, Simon DeDeo
Members of a social species need to make appropriate decisions about who, how, and when to interact with others in their group. However, it has been difficult for researchers to de…
Opacity, Obscurity, and the Geometry of Question-Asking
Christina Boyce-Jacino, Simon DeDeo
Asking questions is a pervasive human activity, but little is understood about what makes them difficult to answer. An analysis of a pair of large databases, of New York Times cros…
An interview based study of pioneering experiences in teaching and learning Complex Systems in Higher Education
Joseph T. Lizier, Michael S. Harré, Melanie Mitchell +5
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of complex systems as a field, students studying complex systems at University level have diverse disciplinary backgrounds. This brings challeng…