Who’s the most influencial? Experts vs. Majority
Following an experimental study that we have recently conducted about the mechanisms of opinion change, two important trends have been identified.
Experiment
Are more confident people always more accurate?
Following the experiment I described in a previous post, one side question that was raised concerns the relevance of the confidence level as an indicator of accuracy. That is, we wanted to know if it’s a good strategy to imitate people expressing a high level of confidence.
Walking with the flow
Recently, I have published a new article in PLoS Computational Biology entitled “Traffic Instabilities in Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowds“. This article is the result of the joint efforts of four different research groups: The CRCA in Toulouse (to which I was affiliated at that time), the INRIA-Bunraku in Rennes, the IMT in Toulouse and the LPT …