Collective Intelligence: Individual and Team Ability

Dear Colleagues,

Collective intelligence commonly refers to the intelligence of a group working together to learn, remember, create, solve problems, or make decisions. Technology advances have enabled improved communication and sharing of knowledge, and continued advances are likely to bring progressively greater interconnectedness. Human intelligence is likely to become gradually more defined by one’s ability to contribute to or act on information produced or obtained in a collective context. Groups, rather than individuals, are increasingly likely to be the target level of analysis for studies on intelligence, its antecedents, and consequences.

The literature on human intelligence has not yet fully embraced this view, and except for a few notable efforts (Woolley et al., 2010; OECD, 2017), there is a dearth of empirical research studying collaborative skill as an individual difference, or studying the generalization of collective performance across time and across tasks.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to explore ways in which collective intelligence might be defined, measured, and evaluated, either as an individual-differences construct, or as a measure of group-level performance. We invite empirical, theoretical, and review articles that address issues of collective intelligence, defined broadly. We encourage diverse approaches to the problem, including psychometric, cognitive, social, behavioral, organizational, educational, differential, and neuroscience approaches. Some examples of questions we hope contributions will address include the following:

• Is there a collective intelligence factor in the sense of generalization of group-relative performance across learning and performance tasks?
• What are some of the individual-level and process predictors of successful groups?
• Is it possible to quantify the strength of an individual’s contributions to a group?
• What methodologies can we use to measure collective performance and individual contributions to group performance?
• How important are cognitive versus noncognitive predictors of group performance?

We believe in transparency and open science principles. Therefore, we will adhere to the requirements listed here under Section 2.2: http://opennessinitiative.org/PRO_Initiative_RSOS.pdf

Dr. Michelle Martin-Raugh
Dr. Patrick C. Kyllonen
Guest Editors

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• teams
• groups
• collective
• collaboration
• cooperation
• teamwork
• ability
• skill
• intelligence
• individual differences