title: What shapes social decision making?
abstract: Outcome transparency and the weight given to social information both play important roles in decision making, but we argue that an overarching influence is the degree to which individuals can and do gather information. Evolution, experience, and development may shape individual specializations in social decision making that carry over across contexts, and these individual differences may influence collective behavior and cultural evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, H3A 1B1, Canada. simon.reader@mcgill.ca http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/reader/
authors.forename: Simon M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Reader
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Biology, Department of Biology, and Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. i.leris@uu.nl.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leris
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking