Moderate confirmation bias enhances decision-making in groups of reinforcement-learning agents

Clémence Bergerot; Wolfram Barfuss; Pawel Romanczuk

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012404

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Moderate confirmation bias enhances decision-making in groups of reinforcement-learning agents

Clémence Bergerot ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: clemence.bergerot@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7640-283X

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Wolfram Barfuss,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Transdisciplinary Research Area: Sustainable Futures, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Pawel Romanczuk

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany
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Moderate confirmation bias enhances decision-making in groups of reinforcement-learning agents

Clémence Bergerot,
Wolfram Barfuss,
Pawel Romanczuk

Published: September 4, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012404

About the Authors

Clémence Bergerot

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: clemence.bergerot@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7640-283X

Wolfram Barfuss

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Transdisciplinary Research Area: Sustainable Futures, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Pawel Romanczuk

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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