Collective Behaviour

Modeling collective interactions in social systems and cultural evolution

Staff

Academic Staff

• Dr Alex Bentley
• Professor Timothy Clark
• Professor David Greatbatch

External Members

• Dr. Matthew Hahn
• Prof. Michael O'Brien
• Mr. Paul Ormerod
• Prof. Stephen Shennan

Publications by staff in this group

Books: authored

• Greatbatch, D. & Clark, T. 2005. Management speak: Why we listen to what the gurus tell us. Routledge.

Edited works: contributions

• Bentley, R.A. 2009. Fashion versus reason in the creative industries. In Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. O'Brien, M.J. & S.J. Shennan. MIT Press. 121-126.
• R.A. Bentley 2003. An introduction to complex systems. In Complex Systems and Archaeology. R.A. Bentley & H.D.G. Maschner Salt lake City: University of Utah press. 9-23.

Journal papers: academic

• Bentley, R.A. & P. Ormerod 2009. Tradition and fashion in consumer choice. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 56: 371-381.
• Bentley, R.A. & P. Ormerod 2009. Social versus independent interest in 'bird flu' and 'swine flu'. PLoS Currents: Influenza Sept 9: RRN1036. (View publication online)
• Bentley, R.A., P. Ormerod & M. Batty 2009. An evolutionary model of long tailed distributions in the social sciences. arXiv preprints 0903.2533.
• Bentley, R.A., P. Ormerod & M. E. Madsen 2008. Physical space and long-tail markets. Physica A 388: 691–696.
• Bentley, R.A, Lipo, C.P., Herzog, H.A. & Hahn, M.W. 2007. Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying. Evolution and Human Behavior 28(3): 151-158. (Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying online">View publication online)
• Bentley, R.A. & S.J. Shennan 2005. Random copying and cultural evolution (Comment). Science 309: 877-879.
• Herzog, H.A., R. A. Bentley & M. W. Hahn 2004. Random drift and large shifts in popularity of dog breeds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 271: S353-S356.