Publications of Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers

Wu, C. M., Deffner, D., Kahl, B., Meder, B., Ho, M. H., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2025). Adaptive mechanisms of social and asocial learning in immersive collective foraging. Nature Communications, 16, Article 3539. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58365-6

Blanchard, M. D., Herzog, S. M., Kämmer, J. E., Zöller, N., Kostopoulou, O., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Collective intelligence increases diagnostic accuracy in a general practice setting. Medical Decision Making, 44(4), 451–462. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X241241001

Deffner, D., Mezey, D., Kahl, B., Schakowski, A., Romanczuk, P., Wu, C. M., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups. Nature Communications, 15, Article 2683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47010-3

Mezey, D., Deffner, D., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., & Romanczuk, P. (2024). Visual social information use in collective foraging. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(5), Article e1012087. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012087

Pacher, K., Breuker, M., Hansen, M. J., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Häge, J., Dhellemmes, F., Domenici, P., Steffensen, J. F., Krause, S., Hildebrandt, T., Fritsch, G., Bach, P., Sabarros, P. S., Zaslansky, P., Mahlow, K., Müller, J., Armas, R. G., Ortiz, H. V., Galván-Magaña, F., & Krause, J. (2024). The rostral micro-tooth morphology of blue marlin, Makaira nigricans. Journal of Fish Biology, 104(3), 713–722. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15608

Sultan, M., Tump, A. N., Ehmann, N., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., Gollwitzer, A., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Susceptibility to online misinformation: A systematic meta-analysis of demographic and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(47), Article e2409329121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409329121

Tump, A. N., Deffner, D., Pleskac, T. J., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). A cognitive computational approach to social and collective decision-making. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(2), 538–551. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231186964

Tump, A. N., Wollny-Hutarsch, D., Molleman, L., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Earlier social information has a stronger influence on judgments. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50345-4

Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Nuzzolese, A. G., Russo, A., Barabucci, G., Herzog, S. M., & Trianni, V. (2023). Automating hybrid collective intelligence in open-ended medical diagnostics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(34), Article e2221473120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221473120

Hansen, M. J., Krause, S., Dhellemmes, F., Pacher, K., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Domenici, P., & Krause, J. (2022). Mechanisms of prey division in striped marlin, a marine group hunting predator. Communications Biology, 5, Article 1161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03951-3