集体行为中的协调和共识引起了很多研究兴趣。尽管以前的研究已经调查了妥协者在群体共识中的作用,他们几乎没有洞悉为什么妥协者会允许这种社会安排持续下去。在这项研究中,安徽省藏猕猴群体运动与冲突管理的潜在关系,中国,使用层次聚类分析进行了调查。一些具有较高社会中心性或社会地位的成员通常在小组运动中形成领先者集群。他们比领跑者集群之外的个人拥有更高的领导成就。其他具有较低社会中心性或社会地位的成员通常会跟随领跑者群体发起的群体运动,从而形成了妥协者集群。妥协者与领跑者的亲密关系随着他们与领跑者的以下得分而增加。当妥协者跟随领跑者发起的团体运动时,他们受到攻击的事件较少。妥协的过程使妥协者失去了方向偏好的选择,但这可以增加他们个人的安全性。这种权衡表明,妥协者在社会动物之间的协调和共识方案中起着决策者的作用。
Coordination and
consensus in collective behavior have attracted a lot of research interest. Although previous studies have investigated the role of compromisers in group
consensus, they provide little insight into why compromisers would allow such social arrangements to persist. In this study, the potential relationship between group movements and conflict management in Tibetan macaques in Anhui province, China, was investigated using hierarchical cluster analyses. Some members with higher social centrality or social rank often formed a front-runner cluster during group movements. They had higher leadership success than individuals outside the front-runner cluster. Other members with lower social centrality or social rank often followed the group movements initiated by the front-runner cluster, and thus formed the compromiser cluster. Compromisers\' proximity relations with front-runners increased with their following scores to front-runners. Compromisers had fewer events of being attacked when they followed group movements initiated by the front-runners. The compromising process made compromisers lose the choice of direction preference, but it could increase their individual safeties. This trade-off suggests that compromisers play a role of decision-maker in coordination and
consensus scenarios among social animals.