Abstract
Decision making plays an important role in many situations. This applies both to individual decision making and collective decision making, although the scope of the consequences of a decision may be quite different for both cases. In the collective case a worldwide scale can be reached whereas in an individual situation often the scale is limited to personal life. Nevertheless, also collective decisions usually have a basis in decisions of individuals within a population. In this paper it is discussed how in certain cases individual decisions can indeed lead to collective decisions with a worldwide scope of consequences. Two mechanisms for this are considered in particular: influencer-driven social contagion within social networks and plasticity-driven evolution within biological populations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Decision Economics |
Subtitle of host publication | Minds, Machines, and their Society |
Editors | Edgardo Bucciarelli, Shu-Heng Chen, Juan M. Corchado, Javier Parra D. |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 199-213 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030755836 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030755829 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Event | 2nd International Conference on Decision Economics, DECON 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 17 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020 |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Computational Intelligence |
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Volume | 990 |
ISSN (Print) | 1860-949X |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1860-9503 |
Conference
Conference | 2nd International Conference on Decision Economics, DECON 2020 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 17/06/20 → 19/06/20 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
- Behavioural plasticity
- Collective decision
- Contagion
- Evolution
- Influencer