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

Burton, J. W., Lopez-Lopez, E., Hechtlinger, S., Rahwan, Z., Aeschbach, S., Bakker, M. A., Becker, J. A., Berditchevskaia, A., Berger, J., Brinkmann, L., Flek, L., Herzog, S. M., Huang, S., Kapoor, S., Narayanan, A., Nussberger, A.-M., Yasseri, T., Nickl, P., Almaatouq, A., Hahn, U., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Leavy, S., Rahwan, I., Siddarth, D., Siu, A., Woolley, A. W., Wulff, D. U., & Hertwig, R. (2024). How large language models can reshape collective intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1643–1655. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01959-9

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

Hansen, M. J., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Licht, M., Häge, J., Pacher, K., Dhellemmes, F., Trillmich, F., Elorriaga-Verplancken, F. R., & Krause, J. (2023). California sea lions interfere with striped marlin hunting behaviour in multi-species predator aggregations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: B, Biological Sciences, 378, Article 20220103. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0103