Group decisions: how (not) to choose a restaurant with friends.
Subordinate baboons voluntarily follow the dominant group member to foraging patches where they themselves starve. One-sided preservation of social ties seems to prevail over fair decision sharing, contradicting recent theory.
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Larissa
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Department of Biology and Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK. l.conradt@sussex.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D010215:Papio / Q000523:psychology; D012919:Social Behavior