Publications, Preprints & Policy Work

The case against efficiency: friction in social media

Joshua Garland, Joe Bak-Coleman, Susan Benesch, Simon DeDeo, Renee DiResta, Jan Eissfeldt, Seungwoong Ha, John Irons, Chris Kempes, Juniper Lovato, and others

npj Complexity, 2026Open

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

M. Vlasceanu\textsuperscriptdag, K. Doell, J. Bak-Coleman, and Others

Science Advances, 2024Open

The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries

Kimberly C Doell, Boryana Todorova, Madalina Vlasceanu, Joseph B Bak Coleman, Ekaterina Pronizius, Philipp Schumann, Flavio Azevedo, Yash Patel, Michael M Berkebile-Wineberg, Cameron Brick, and others

Scientific Data, 2024Open

Collective decision strategies in the presence of spatio-temporal correlations

Claudia Winklmayr, Albert B Kao, Joseph B Bak-Coleman, and Pawel Romanczuk

Collective Intelligence, 2023Open

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, Colin R. Twomey, Joseph Bak-Coleman, Daniel I. Rubenstein, and Iain D. Couzin

eLife, 2022Open

Collective wisdom in polarized groups.

J. Bak-Coleman, C. Tokita, D. Morris, D. Rubenstein, and I. Couzin

Collective Intelligence, 2022Open

Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation

J. Bak-Coleman, I. Kennedy, M. Wack, A. Beers, J. Schafer, E. Spiro, K. Starbird, and J. West

Nature Human Behaviour, 2022Open

Reply to Cheong and Jones: The role of science in responding to collective behavioral threats

Joseph B Bak-Coleman and Carl T Bergstrom

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021Open

Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior

J. Bak-Coleman, M. Alfano, W. Barfuss, J. Van Bavel, I. Couzin, J. Donges, M. Galesic, A. Gersick, A. Kao, M. Moffett, R. Moran, T. Patterson, R. Romanczuk, D. Rubenstein, and M. Centeno

PNAS, 2021Open

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, 2020Open

The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy

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

Proceedings B, 2020Open

Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish

L. Liang, M. Nagy, J. and Graving, J. Bak-Coleman, J. Xie, and I. Couzin

Nature Communications, 2020Open

Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups

M. Sosna, C. Twomey, J. Bak-Coleman, W. Poel, B. Daniels, P. Romanczuk, and I. Couzin

PNAS, 2019Open

Information gerrymandering in social networks skews collective decision-making

Carl T Bergstrom and Joseph B Bak-Coleman

Nature, 2019Open

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

A. Kao, A. Berdahl, A. Hartnett, M. Lutz, J. Bak-Coleman, C. Ioannou, X. Giam, and I. Couzin

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2018Open

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, 2015Open

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

J. Bak-Coleman and S. Coombs

The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014Open

The effects of flow on schooling Devario aequipinnatus: school structure, startle response and information transmission

A Chicoli, S Butail, Y Lun, J Bak-Coleman, S Coombs, and D Paley

Journal of Fish Biology, 2014Open

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

J. Bak-Coleman, A. Court, D. Paley, and S. Coombs

The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013Open