Collective Intelligence and Group Performance

By Anita Williams Woolley, Ishani Aggarwal, Thomas W. Malone. 2015

327 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6ff64a539dd4d116a7819ac080c815b9ab224e5b

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In Communication

1. Richard Bonneau
2. Jonathan Nagler
3. Joshua A. Tucker
4. S. van der Linden

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Joshua A. Tucker
2. S. van der Linden
3. Mark A. Kayser
4. Michael Peress
5. L. Ezrow

Citations in the corpus

• AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors in Agents (2023, unknown): “Empirical evidence suggests that diversity within human groups introduces varied viewpoints, enhancing the group’s performance across different tasks (Woolley et al., 2015; Phillips & O’Reilly, 1998).”
• Moderating with the Mob: Evaluating the Efficacy of Real-Time Crowdsourced Fact-Checking (2021, background): “…intelligence suggests that aggregated estimates from groups of ordinary people converge on accurate judgements, even if the average individual estimate in the group is not especially accurate (Golub and Jackson 2010; Surowiecki 2005; Woolley et al. 2010; Woolley, Aggarwal, and Malone 2015).”