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K@W Podcast: Are Teams Better Than Individuals at Getting Work Done?

Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News, Publication

Originally published at Knowledge@Wharton PHILADELPHIA, October 12, 2021 — When it comes to getting work done, two heads are better than one. Except when they aren’t. A new study from Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions Duncan Watts digs into...

PennMAP Research and Outcomes to Expand Thanks to Leadership Gift

Sep 30, 2021 | News, PennMAP, Projects

Originally published in the Wharton Newsroom PHILADELPHIA, September 30, 2021 — The Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania are delighted to announce the expansion of the Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP), an interdisciplinary, nonpartisan research...

Wharton Behavioral Lab approves support for group dynamics research

Sep 21, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Projects

We are excited to announce that the Wharton Behavioral Lab has agreed to support the CSSLab’s research on group dynamics. They will provide generous complimentary funds to help us to run our high-throughput virtual lab experiments, which will require participation...

Annenberg Conversations on Gender: “Algorithm Audits to Accountability” with Duncan Watts & Danaë Metaxa

Sep 10, 2021 | News

The conversation “Algorithm Audits to Accountability” took place on September 3, 2021 between Duncan Watts, the Stevens University Professor and twenty-third Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Danaë...

Are two heads better than one? Or do too many cooks spoil the broth?

Sep 3, 2021 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News, Published

Can we predict whether a team of interacting individuals will outperform a group of individuals working alone? In their new paper “Task complexity moderates group synergy,” Abdullah Almaatouq and Duncan Watts, along with co-authors Mohammed Alsobay and Ming Yin,...