Virtual labs allow researchers to design high-throughput and macro-level experiments that
are not feasible in traditional in-person physical lab settings. Despite the increasing …

Decades of research suggest that information exchange in groups and organizations can
reliably improve judgment accuracy in tasks such as financial forecasting, market research …

Whether, and under what conditions, groups exhibit “crowd wisdom” has been a major focus
of research across the social and computational sciences. Much of this work has focused on …

Scholars have devoted considerable research attention to examining how people use
advice from others. However, there is much less research exploring the preceding step of …

Humans and other intelligent agents often rely on collective decision making based on an
intuition that groups outperform individuals. However, at present, we lack a complete …

Extensive literature argues that crowds possess essential collective intelligence benefits that
allow superior decision-making by untrained individuals working in low-information …

A jury of one's peers is a prominent way to adjudicate disputes and is increasingly used in
participatory governance online. The fairness of this approach rests on the assumption that …

Town hall-type debates are increasingly moving online, irrevocably transforming public
discourse. Yet, we know relatively little about crucial social dynamics that determine which …

Investigations of social influence in collective decision-making have become possible due to
recent technologies and platforms that record interactions in much larger groups than could …

The potential for groups to outperform the cognitive capabilities of even highly skilled
individuals, known as the “wisdom of the crowd”, is crucial to the functioning of democratic …