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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
96 results for "collective behavior" — page 2 of 5
T_4_08 — Behavioral Economics and Nudge Theory
Behavioral economics integrates psychology into economic models, challenging the rational agent (homo economicus) assumption of classical economics. The field was established by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's Prospec
T_1_01 — Jungian Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) developed analytical psychology as a departure from Freudian psychoanalysis, proposing that beneath the personal unconscious lies a collective unconscious—a shared psychic substrate containin
T_5_17 — Cultural Memory: Collective Remembrance, Tradition, and Identity
Cultural memory — the shared body of knowledge, narratives, images, and rituals through which a society constructs and maintains its sense of identity across generations — emerged as a distinct academic field in the late
L_3_07 — Behavioral Genetics: Nature and Nurture
Behavioral genetics — the scientific study of how genetic and environmental factors contribute to individual differences in behavior — has transformed our understanding of human psychology over the past half-century. Thr
Y_4_13 — Collective Effervescence and Group Altered States
Collective effervescence — Émile Durkheim's term (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912) for the heightened emotional energy generated when people gather and act together in coordinated ritual — describes a group
Y_4_19 — Ritual-Induced Ecstasy
Ritual-induced ecstasy — altered states of consciousness produced through collective ceremonial practices including dance, chanting, drumming, fasting, pain ordeal, and rhythmic movement — is one of the oldest and most u
ZC_3_23 — Commons Governance — Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington, became the first woman to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) for her groundbreaking work demonstratin
R_4_09 — Parasitism and Host-Parasite Coevolution
Parasitism — a symbiotic relationship in which one organism (the parasite) benefits at the expense of another (the host) — is arguably the most common lifestyle on Earth. By some estimates, over 40% of all described spec
U_5_21 — Upper Paleolithic Art: Cave Painting, Portable Art, and Symbolic Cognition
Upper Paleolithic art — spanning approximately 45,000 to 10,000 years ago — represents the earliest unambiguous evidence of complex symbolic cognition in Homo sapiens. The corpus includes parietal (cave wall) art at over
U_5_16 — AI-Generated Art: Creativity, Authorship & the Machine
AI-generated art — images, music, text, and video produced through machine learning systems — has become the defining creative controversy of the 2020s. Beginning with DeepDream (2015) and neural style transfer, accelera
C_1_20 — The Shadow Archetype in World Mythology
The Shadow archetype, articulated by Carl Gustav Jung as a fundamental component of the psyche, manifests across world mythologies as the dark double, the rejected brother, or the monstrous other that heroes must confron
ZF_4_17 — Anthropogenic Ocean Noise: Acoustic Pollution and Marine Life
Anthropogenic ocean noise — the introduction of human-generated sound into the marine environment — has increased dramatically since the mid-20th century, transforming the ocean soundscape from one dominated by biologica
ZF_4_13 — Ocean Noise Pollution: Anthropogenic Sound and Marine Life
Ocean noise pollution — the introduction of excessive or harmful human-generated sound into the marine environment — has emerged as one of the most pervasive and least visible threats to marine ecosystems. Sound travels
K_3_09 — Minimal Consciousness and the Threshold of Sentience
Where does consciousness begin? This question — the problem of the threshold of sentience — is one of the most challenging in consciousness studies because it requires identifying what KIND of physical system is minimall
K_4_04 — Morphic Resonance and Sheldrake's Hypothesis
Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake (b. 1942, Cambridge-trained plant physiologist) that proposes nature operates by habits, not fixed laws, and that organisms and systems are influen
K_4_12 — Noosphere — Teilhard de Chardin, Vernadsky, and the Thinking Layer
The noosphere ("sphere of mind") is a concept developed independently by Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and French paleontologist-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in the 1920s, describing a layer of collective hu
AI Hallucination and the Consciousness Filter — A Cross-Disciplinary Connection Map
Both brains and large language models run the same basic operation: generate a prediction, then check it against a constraint. In brains, the constraint is sensory evidence, and Anil Seth calls the result a "controlled h
ZB_1_09 — Tool Use in Animals
Tool use — defined as the deployment of an external object to alter the form, position, or condition of another object or organism — was once considered uniquely human. Since Jane Goodall's 1960 observation of chimpanzee
ZB_1_05 — Parasitism and Host Manipulation: Dark Arts of Evolution
Parasitism — where one organism benefits at the expense of another — is the most common lifestyle on Earth, with parasites outnumbering free-living species in most ecosystems. Among the most remarkable phenomena in biolo
ZC_3_18 — Surveillance Capitalism and the Digital Economy
Surveillance capitalism — a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2019) — describes an economic system in which human experience is unilaterally claimed as free raw
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