Putting heads together - 1 views
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Groups whose members had higher levels of “social sensitivity” — the willingness of the group to let all its members take turns and apply their skills to a given challenge — were more collectively intelligent. “Social sensitivity has to do with how well group members perceive each other’s emotions,”
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What our results indicate is that people with social skills are good for a group — whether they are male or female.
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We also think it’s possible to improve the intelligence of a group, by either changing the members of a group, or teaching them better ways of interacting
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"A new study co-authored by MIT researchers documents the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups' individual members, and that the tendency to cooperate effectively is linked to the number of women in a group." -
Some interesting implications here for teams at schools including their composition and providing training to develop social skills.
