Interaction among participants in a collective intelligence experiment: an emotional approach

Orejudo, Santos (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Lozano-Blasco, Raquel (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Bautista, Pablo (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Aiger, Montserrat (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Introduction
The construct of collective intelligence assumes that groups have a better capacity than individuals to deal with complex, poorly defined problems. The digital domain allows us to analyze this premise under circumstances different from those in the physical environment: we can gather an elevated number of participants and generate a large quantity of data.

Methods
This study adopted an emotional perspective to analyze the interactions among 794 adolescents dealing with a sexting case on an online interaction platform designed to generate group answers resulting from a certain degree of achieved consensus.ResultsOur results show that emotional responses evolve over time in several phases of interaction. From the onset, the emotional dimension predicts how individual responses will evolve, particularly in the final consensus phase.

Discussion
Responses gradually become more emotionally complex; participants tend to identify themselves with the victim in the test case while increasingly rejecting the aggressors.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1383134

Año: 2024

Publicado en: Frontiers in Psychology 15 (2024), [17 pp.]
ISSN: 1664-1078

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/MICINN/TED2021-130302B-C21

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Psicología Social (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)
Área (Departamento): Área Didáctica y Organiz. Esc. (Dpto. Ciencias de la Educación)
Área (Departamento): Área Psicolog.Evolut.Educac (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)