More of the social world lives within electronic text than ever before, from collective activity
on the web, social media, and instant messaging to online transactions, government …

Teams offer the potential to achieve more than any person could achieve working alone; yet,
particularly in teams that span professional boundaries, it is critical to capitalize on the …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a well-known technique for approximating a tabular
data set by a low rank matrix. Here, we extend the idea of PCA to handle arbitrary data sets …

In the past three decades or so, globalization/regionalization, migration and reverse
migration (also referred to as “brain circulation”), the ascendancy of emerging markets, the …

Policy-and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions
without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical …

Leveraging the social hierarchy literature, the present research offers a role-based account
of the antecedents of interpersonal conflict. Specifically, we suggest that the negative …

The economics profession includes disproportionately few women and members of
historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups, relative both to the overall …

Collective intelligence refers to the ability of groups to outperform individual decision makers
when solving complex cognitive problems. Despite its potential to revolutionize decision …

This paper examines the phenomena of online crowdsourcing from the perspectives of both
volunteers and the campaign coordinator of Tomnod–an online mapping project that uses …