publications

2024

1. Causal claims about scientific rigor require rigorous causal evidence.

   Joseph B Bak-Coleman, and Berna Devezer

   Nature Human Behavior, 2024
2. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries.

   2024
3. Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

   M. Vlasceanu\textsuperscript^†, K. Doell, J. Bak-Coleman, and 1 more author

   Science Advances, 2024
4. Toolbox of Interventions Against Online Misinformation and Manipulation

   Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan M Herzog, and 8 more authors

   Nature Human Behavior, 2024

2023

1. Collective decision strategies in the presence of spatio-temporal correlations

   Claudia Winklmayr, Albert B Kao, Joseph B Bak-Coleman, and 1 more author

   Collective Intelligence, Feb 2023

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   Background: Models of collective decision-making typically assume that individuals sample information independently and decide instantaneously. In most natural and sociological settings, however, d...

2022

1. Both prey and predator features predict the individual predation risk and survival of schooling prey

   Jolle Wolter Jolles, Matthew M.G. Sosna, Geoffrey P.F. Mazué, and 4 more authors

   eLife, Jul 2022

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   Predation is one of the main evolutionary drivers of social grouping. While it is well appreciated that predation risk is likely not shared equally among individuals within groups, its detailed quantification has remained difficult due to the speed of attacks and the highly dynamic nature of collective prey response. Here, using high-resolution tracking of solitary predators (Northern pike) hunting schooling fish (golden shiners), we not only provide insights into predator decision-making, but show which key spatial and kinematic features of predator and prey predict the risk of individuals to be targeted and to survive attacks. We found that pike tended to stealthily approach the largest groups, and were often already inside the school when launching their attack, making prey in this frontal ‘strike zone’ the most vulnerable to be targeted. From the prey’s perspec-tive, those fish in central locations, but relatively far from, and less aligned with, neighbours, were most likely to be targeted. While the majority of attacks were successful (70%), targeted individuals that did manage to avoid being captured exhibited a higher maximum acceleration response just before the attack and were further away from the pike‘s head. Our results highlight the crucial interplay between predators’ attack strategy and response of prey underlying the predation risk within mobile animal groups.

2. Collective wisdom in polarized groups.

   J. Bak-Coleman, C. Tokita, D. Morris, and 2 more authors

   Collective Intelligence, Jul 2022
3. Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation

   J. Bak-Coleman, I. Kennedy, M. Wack, and 5 more authors

   Nature Human Behavior, May 2022

2021

1. Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior

   J. Bak-Coleman, M. Alfano, W. Barfuss, and 12 more authors

   PNAS, May 2021
2. How to mislead with statistics

   K. Lum, N. Kabir, and J. Bak-Coleman

   Significance, May 2021

2020

1. Rheotaxis revisited: Multi-behavioral and multisensory frameworks for understanding how fish orient to flow.

   S. Coombs, J. Bak-Coleman, and J. Montgomery

   The Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2020
2. The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy

   C. Winkylmayr, A. Kao, and J. Bak-Coleman

   Proceedings B, May 2020
3. Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish

   L. Liang, M. Nagy, J. Graving, and 3 more authors

   Nature Communications, May 2020

2019

1. Structural encoding of perceived risk in fish schools

   M. Sosna, C. Twomey, J. Bak-Coleman, and 4 more authors

   PNAS, May 2019

2018

1. Counteracting estimation bias and social influence to improve the wisdom of crowds.

   A. Kao, A. Berdahl, A. Hartnett, and 5 more authors

   Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, May 2018

2015

1. Rheotaxis performance increases with group size in a coupled phase model with sensory noise: The effects of noise and group size on rheotaxis

   A. Chicoli, J. Bak-Coleman, S. Coombs, and 1 more author

   European Physical Journal: Special Topics, May 2015
2. The lateral line is necessary for blind cavefish rheotaxis in non-uniform flow

   M. Kulpa, J. Bak-Coleman, and S. Coombs

   The Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2015
3. Going with, then against the flow: Evidence against the optomotor hypothesis of fish rheotaxis

   J. Bak-Coleman, D. Smith, and S. Coombs

   Animal Behaviour, May 2015

2014

1. Sedentary behavior as a factor in determining lateral line contributions to rheotaxis

   J. Bak-Coleman, and S. Coombs

   The Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2014
2. The effects of flow on schooling Devario aequipinnatus: school structure, startle response and information transmission

   A Chicoli, S Butail, Y Lun, and 3 more authors

   Journal of Fish Biology, May 2014

2013

1. The spatiotemporal dynamics of rheotactic behavior depends on flow speed and available sensory information.

   J. Bak-Coleman, A. Court, D. Paley, and 1 more author

   The Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2013