Busting the myth of “groupthink,” a powerful look at how our ability to influence one another can accelerate individual and collective intelligence.
In Goodthink, Damon Centola shows how to build teams, design online platforms, and create office spaces that sharpen our thinking individually and align our intelligence collectively. The secret, it turns out, is in the shape of our networks.
We investigate how social learning in structured information-sharing networks affects anchoring bias. Using a large-scale experiment, we show that networked groups can reduce the influence of harmful anchors while increasing the influence of helpful ones, leading to significant improvements in individual and collective accuracy through the dynamics of collective intelligence.
We examine the network dynamics that lead populations of individuals who initially disagree about which behaviors are virtuous to arrive at consistent, replicable consensus in their beliefs about virtuous behavior.
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