Meslec Nicoleta, Aggarwal Ishani, Curseu Petru L
Department of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University Tilburg, Netherlands.
Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Front Psychol. 2016 May 9;7:676. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00676. eCollection 2016.
A group's collective intelligence reflects its capacity to perform well across a variety of cognitive tasks and it transcends the individual intelligence of its members. Previous research shows that group members' social sensitivity is a potential antecedent of collective intelligence, yet it is still unclear whether individual or group-level indices are responsible for the positive association between social sensitivity and collective intelligence. In a comprehensive manner, we test the extent to which both compositional (lowest and highest individual score) and compilational aspects (emergent group level) of social sensitivity are associated with collective intelligence. This study has implications for research that explores groups as information processors, and for group design as it indicates how a group should be composed with respect to social sensitivity if the group is to reach high levels of collective intelligence. Our empirical results indicate that collectively intelligent groups are those in which the least socially sensitive group member has a rather high score on social sensitivity. Differently stated, (socially sensitive) group members cannot compensate for the lack of social sensitivity of the other group members.
一个群体的集体智慧反映了其在各种认知任务中表现出色的能力，并且超越了其成员的个体智慧。先前的研究表明，群体成员的社会敏感性是集体智慧的一个潜在前提，但尚不清楚是个体层面还是群体层面的指标导致了社会敏感性与集体智慧之间的正向关联。我们全面测试了社会敏感性的构成方面（最低和最高个体得分）和综合方面（群体层面的涌现）与集体智慧的关联程度。这项研究对将群体视为信息处理器的研究以及群体设计具有启示意义，因为它表明了如果一个群体要达到高水平的集体智慧，就社会敏感性而言，该群体应如何构成。我们的实证结果表明，具有集体智慧的群体是那些社会敏感性最低的群体成员在社会敏感性方面得分相当高的群体。换句话说，（社会敏感的）群体成员无法弥补其他群体成员社会敏感性的不足。
