From Individual Decisions to Collective Decisions Changing the World

Jan Treur

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From Individual Decisions to Collective Decisions Changing the World

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75583-6_20
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	2nd International Conference on Decision Economics, DECON 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 17 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020

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Name	Studies in Computational Intelligence
Volume	990
ISSN (Print)	1860-949X
ISSN (Electronic)	1860-9503

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Conference	2nd International Conference on Decision Economics, DECON 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	17/06/20 → 19/06/20

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Keywords

Behavioural plasticity
Collective decision
Contagion
Evolution
Influencer

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Treur, J. (2021). From Individual Decisions to Collective Decisions Changing the World. In E. Bucciarelli, S.-H. Chen, J. M. Corchado, & J. Parra D. (Eds.), Decision Economics: Minds, Machines, and their Society (pp. 199-213). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 990). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75583-6_20

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Treur, J 2021, From Individual Decisions to Collective Decisions Changing the World. in E Bucciarelli, S-H Chen, JM Corchado & J Parra D. (eds), Decision Economics: Minds, Machines, and their Society. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 990, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 199-213, 2nd International Conference on Decision Economics, DECON 2020, Virtual, Online, 17/06/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75583-6_20

From Individual Decisions to Collective Decisions Changing the World. / Treur, Jan.
Decision Economics: Minds, Machines, and their Society. ed. / Edgardo Bucciarelli; Shu-Heng Chen; Juan M. Corchado; Javier Parra D. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 199-213 (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 990).

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