Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups

By N Yeung, Matthew Botvinick, J. D. Cohen, W J Gehring, B. Goss, Michael G. H. Coles, David E. Meyer, X Liu, Matthew J. C. Crump, G. D. Logan and 5 more. Science, 2010

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology

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AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors in Agents (2023, neutral): “Throughout history, numerous studies have delved into methods for enhancing collaboration among humans to improve work efficiency and effectiveness (Woolley et al., 2010; Fehr & G¨achter, 2000).”
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Occupation and Gender (2017, background): “…wages from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.9 The authors argue that the slowing convergence of the gender-wage gap since the mid- 8 Several studies have also shown that females score higher on tests of emotional and social intelligence (Hall, 1978, Woolley et al., 2010, Kirkland et al., 2013).”
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