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    "pk": 26220,
    "title": "Collective search on rugged landscapes:A cross-environmental analysis",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In groups and organizations, agents use both individual and so-cial learning to solve problems. The balance between these twoactivities can lead collectives to very different levels of perfor-mance. We model collective search as a combination of simplelearning strategies to conduct the first large-scale comparativestudy, across fifteen challenging environments and two differ-ent network structures. In line with previous findings in thesocial learning literature, collectives using a hybrid of individ-ual and social learning perform much better than specialistsusing only one or the other. Importantly, we find that collec-tive performance varies considerably across different task en-vironments, and that different types of network structures canbe superior, depending on the environment. These results sug-gest that recent contradictions in the social learning literaturemay be due to methodological differences between two sepa-rate research traditions, studying disjoint sets of environmentsthat lead to divergent findings.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Social learning; communication networks; collec-tive behavior; search; rugged landscapes."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Barkoczi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Pantelis",
            "middle_name": "P.",
            "last_name": "Analytis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Charley",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Wu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Human Development",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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