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.
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Tag: 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 in Paris. This project was founded by the PEDIGREE project, a national research grant from the French ANR.
