Selected Publications

Below are papers relevant to the development and demonstration of the Test of Collective Intelligence; for other research, please see Our Research

Original Study

Woolley, A. W., Chabris, C. F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N., & Malone, T. W. (2010). Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups. Science, 330(6004), 686–688. link

Evaluating Construct Validity

Woolley, A. W., Riedl, C., Kim, Y. J., & Malone, T. W. (2017). More evidence for a general collective intelligence factor in human groups: A meta-analysis. Proceedings of Collective Intelligence 2017. link

Woolley, A. W., Kim, Y., & Malone, T. W. (2018). Measuring Collective Intelligence in Groups: A Reply to Credé and Howardson (SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 3187373). Social Science Research Network. link

(others not listed for protection of double-blind review)

Research Describing the Test of Collective Intelligence

Aggarwal, I., Woolley, A. W., Chabris, C. F., & Malone, T. W. (2019). The impact of cognitive style diversity on implicit learning in teams. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 112. link

Chikersal, P., Tomprou, M., Kim, Y. J., Woolley, A., & Dabbish, L. (2017). Deep structures of collaboration: Physiological correlates of collective intelligence and group satisfaction. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017). link

Engel, D., Woolley, A. W., Jing, L. X., Chabris, C. F., & Malone, T. W. (2014). Reading the mind in the eyes or reading between the lines? Theory of mind predicts collective intelligence equally well online and face-to-face. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115212. link

Glikson, E., Woolley, A. W., Gupta, P., & Kim, Y. J. (2019). Visualized automatic feedback in virtual teams. Frontiers in Psychology. link

Gupta, P., Kim, Y. J., Glikson, E., & Woolley, A. W. (2019). Digitally nudging team processes to enhance collective intelligence. Proceedings of Collective Intelligence 2019. link

Kim, Y. J., Engel, D., Woolley, A. W., Lin, J., McArthur, N., & Malone, T. W. (2017). What makes a strong team? Using collective intelligence to predict performance of teams in League of Legends. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017). link


Overview of Collective Intelligence Research Conducted by CI-Lab@CMU

Malone, T. W., & Woolley, A. W. (2020). Collective Intelligence. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (2nd ed.) Cambridge University Press. link

Woolley, A. W., Aggarwal, I., & Malone, T. W. (2015). Collective intelligence and group performance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(6), 420–424. link

Woolley, A. W., Aggarwal, I., & Malone, T. W. (2015). Collective intelligence in teams and organizations. In T. W. Malone & M. S. Bernstein (Eds.), Collective Intelligence. MIT Press. link