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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Overview of presentation
- Collective intelligence in the wild
- Individual intelligence in human groups
- Groups and intelligence in the field
- The puzzle
- General intelligence
- Individual intelligence
- The “g-factor”
- Collective intelligence
- Study 1
- Sampling tasks
- Evidence for a c-factor
- Study 2
- Predictive value of c and g factors
- Overview of this presentation
- What predicts c?
- The female factor
- Social sensitivity
- What predicts c??
- Cognitive abilities and styles
- Cognitive diversity and collective intelligence
- Collective intelligence and communication
- Lab study: expertise and communication
- Evidence 1: cryptic email
- Evidence 2: degraded pictures
- Evidence 3: security camera footage
- Evidence 4: building reconnaissance photos
- Study design
- Lab procedure
- Teams in the lab
- Performance measures
- Team performance
- Information integration
- Information integration mediates exercise effects
- When is team larger than the sum of its parts?
- References
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Topics Covered
- Recent research on collective intelligence in human groups
- Collective intelligence in animal groups
- Background on individual intelligence research in the context of teams
- Laboratory studies exploring measurement of collective intelligence in human groups
- Key ingredients for intelligent teams
- Predictors of collective intelligence in groups
- The effects of group gender composition
- Social sensitivity and collective intelligence
- Cognitive style diversity and collective intelligence
- Distribution of communication and collective intelligence
- Lab study on group expertise and communication
Talk Citation
Williams Woolley, A. (2019, May 30). Expertise and collective intelligence: when teams are (and are not) more than the sum of their parts [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 8, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/TVKJ6728.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Expertise and collective intelligence: when teams are (and are not) more than the sum of their parts
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0:00
Hello, my name is Anita Williams Woolley.
I'm a professor of Organizational Behavior in Theory
at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
Today, I'm going to talk about expertise and collective intelligence
or when teams are and are not more than the sum of their parts.
0:21
In this presentation, I am first going to tell you
about some recent research on collective intelligence in human groups.
In doing so, I'm going to review some background on
individual intelligence research and how this has previously been applied to groups,
as well as the results of
some recent laboratory studies looking at collective intelligence in human groups.
After I summarize this research,
I will then try to distill for you the key ingredients for
successful teams including what we have learned about team composition,
and some essential features of team communication.
By the conclusion of the presentation,
I hope to summarize for you what we have learned about the conditions
under which teams are and are not more than the sum of their parts.
1:08
If you were to google collective intelligence,
many of the examples that would come up in your search would be from the animal kingdom,
and there are always wonderful examples of collective intelligence in animal groups.
For example, ants are very simple creatures
individually without much memory or problem-solving capacity,
but collectively, they can accomplish some fairly impressive things.
They can build nests which are structurally quite sophisticated,
they can locate in prioritize sources of food,
they can construct bridges to cross difficult terrain,
or carry objects that are many multiples their body weight.
Flocks of birds exhibit similar levels of sophistication.
In both cases, these animal groups can
enhance their collective survival and adapt to a range of
dynamic conditions largely because of the manner in which they are
hard-wired to attend to signals sent by other group members,
and to respond in a manner that enhances the objectives of the whole.
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