The participation of the general public in the research design, data collection and
interpretation process together with scientists is often referred to as citizen science. While …

Collaborative research teams are a necessary and desirable component of most scientific
endeavors. Effective collaborative teams exhibit important research outcomes, far beyond …

From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea
flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social …

Recent research with face-to-face groups found that a measure of general group
effectiveness (called “collective intelligence”) predicted a group's performance on a wide …

Despite the hype and speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs)
may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and …

The study of prosocial behavior—altruism, cooperation, trust, and the related moral emotions—
has matured enough to produce general scholarly consensus that prosociality is …

Implicit biases can foster negative attitudes and lead to damaging stereotypical behaviors.
Stereotypes can negatively affect the education, hiring, promotion, and retention of women …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

Coordination challenges are an inherent part of group work. They are perhaps more
daunting for creative work because coordinating creative work requires allowing for …

Leadership is instrumental to resolution of collective action dilemmas, particularly in large,
heterogeneous groups. Less is known about the characteristics or effectiveness of …