Social influence undermines the wisdom of the crowd in sequential decision making

V Frey, A Van de Rijt - Management science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Teams, juries, electorates, and committees must often select from various alternative
courses of action what they judge to be the best option. The phenomenon that the central …

Learning in the Household

JJ Conlon, M Mani, G Rao, MW Ridley, F Schilbach - 2021 - nber.org
We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary
whether individuals discover information themselves or must instead learn what their spouse …

Confidence, self-selection, and bias in the aggregate

B Enke, T Graeber, R Oprea - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
The influence of behavioral biases on aggregate outcomes depends in part on self-
selection: whether rational people opt more strongly into aggregate interactions than biased …

Orchestrating coordination among humanitarian organizations

L Ruesch, M Tarakci, M Besiou… - Production and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Disasters mobilize hundreds of organizations, but coordination among them remains a
challenge. This is why the United Nations has formed clusters to facilitate information and …

Review dynamics and their impact on software quality

P Thongtanunam, AE Hassan - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code review is a crucial activity for ensuring the quality of software products. Unlike the
traditional code review process of the past where reviewers independently examine …

Wise teamwork: Collective confidence calibration predicts the effectiveness of group discussion

I Silver, BA Mellers, PE Tetlock - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 'Crowd wisdom'refers to the surprising accuracy that can be attained by averaging
judgments from independent individuals. However, independence is unusual; people often …

Questions and deception: How to ask better questions and elicit the truth

EM VanEpps, E Hart - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Questions are important tools for uncovering information, but to avoid deception, question
askers must be strategic in what and how they ask—and consider the social implications of …

The interpersonal effects of emotional expressions with both and single valences on work-related satisfaction: an examination of emotions and perceived openness as …

MH Tsai - Cognition and Emotion, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Work-related satisfaction has critical benefits. To predict work-related satisfaction, we
investigated how a counterpart's expressions of emotional complexity (both positive and …

The crowd classification problem: Social dynamics of binary-choice accuracy

JA Becker, D Guilbeault, EB Smith - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Decades of research suggest that information exchange in groups and organizations can
reliably improve judgment accuracy in tasks such as financial forecasting, market research …

Judgment in Business and Management Research: Shedding New Light on a Familiar Concept

H Tsoukas, D Hadjimichael, AK Nair… - Academy of …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Judgment is an important concept in business and management research and related to
several subfields, ranging from staff appraisal and entrepreneurship to strategic decision …