Broomell, Stephen B Davis-Stober, Clintin P
Published in
Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
Global climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of misinformation on social media are just a handful of highly consequential problems affecting society. We argue that the rough contours of many societal problems can be framed within a "wisdom of crowds" perspective. Such a framing allows researchers to recast complex problems within a ...
Cavazos, Jacqueline G Jeckeln, Géraldine O'Toole, Alice J
Published in
British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)
Face identification is particularly prone to error when individuals identify people of a race other than their own - a phenomenon known as the other-race effect (ORE). Here, we show that collaborative "wisdom-of-crowds" decision-making substantially improves face identification accuracy for own- and other-race faces over individuals working alone. ...
Straube, Julia Kauffeld, Simone
Published in
Frontiers in Communication
Communication between different subgroups is essential to group success, as different perspectives and knowledge need to be integrated. Especially when subgroups form due to faultlines, hypothetical dividing lines splitting a group into homogeneous subgroups, the resulting subgroups are vulnerable to negative intergroup processes. In this article, ...
Lin, Tung-Cheng Fang, David Hsueh, Siang-Ying Lai, Ming-Cheng
Published in
Health informatics journal
Facebook long-term care groups have been established by long-term care workers, and few studies have explored the related drivers of participation from the perspective of caregivers. This study applied a mixed-methods approach; the qualitative component conducted a pilot study to explore the drivers of participation in Facebook long-term care group...
Desmidt, Sebastian Meyfroodt, Kenn George, Bert
A shared understanding of strategic priorities within decision-making teams is important for strategy implementation. However, although upper echelons theory argues that group diversity has a negative impact on shared strategic cognition, research on the impact of group diversity measures based on political characteristics is lacking. Consequently,...
Curşeu, Petru Lucian
Published in
The International journal of health planning and management
An integrative model of group learning was tested in a sample of 40 healthcare groups (434 respondents), and the results show that age diversity reduces the frequency of face-to-face communication whereas educational diversity reduces the frequency of virtual communication in healthcare groups. Frequency of communication (both face-to-face and virt...
Banerjee (Moitra), S. Sanyal, A. K. Moitra, M. N.
Published in
Proceedings of the Zoological Society
Chintamani Abhayaranya in South 24-Parganas, West Bengal has an exposure to anthropogenic stress for its location. Soil mites here, constituted more than 73% of the population of soil microarthropods. Oribatid mites were found to be the most numerically abundant group among the soil mites, followed by order Mesostigmata. Population maxima and minim...