Consider the range of social behaviours we engage in every day. In each case, there are a
multitude of unknowns, reflecting the many sources of uncertainty inherent to social …

Very little is known about how individuals learn under uncertainty when other people are
involved. We propose that humans are particularly tuned to social uncertainty, which is …

Uncertainty is a fundamental feature of human life that can be fractioned into two distinct
psychological constructs: risk (known probabilistic outcomes) and ambiguity (unknown …

Uncertainty about how our choices will affect others infuses social life. Past research
suggests uncertainty has a negative effect on prosocial behaviour,,,,,,,,,,–by enabling people …

Social information use is widespread in the animal kingdom, helping individuals rapidly
acquire useful knowledge and adjust to novel circumstances. In humans, the highly …

Social information enables individuals to reduce uncertainty and increase decision accuracy
across a broad range of domains. Intriguingly, individuals and populations consistently differ …

Collective dynamics emerge from countless individual decisions. Yet, we poorly understand
the processes governing dynamically-interacting individuals in human collectives under …

How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in
distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this …

The complex reward structure of the social world and the uncertainty endemic to social
contexts poses a challenge for modeling. For example, during social interactions, the actions …

Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective 'wisdom'and other times maladaptive
'herding'is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by …