A new study looks at the impact of group conformity on task performance in various environments and leverages insights from cultural evolution, social learning, and social psychology to experimentally ...

What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

Humans are storytelling machines. We don't passively perceive the world - we tell stories about it, translating the helter-skelter of events into tidy narratives. This is often a helpful habit, ...

Why are some brainstorming sessions extremely productive while others fall flat? Nicole Lipkin, a clinical psychologist, says in her book "What Keeps Leaders Up At Night" that it all comes down to ...

TV viewers in the United Kingdom might have inadvertently learned a corporate ethics lesson during the holiday season. The International Compliance Association (ICA) is a professional membership and ...

There’s nothing unusual about the need to go along with the group. Evolutionists think that it offers a survival advantage, creating a uniform herd that’s less susceptible to dangers. But when it ...