Group Coordination Catalyzes Individual and Cultural Intelligence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charley M Wu (0000-0002-2215-572X, University of Tübingen), Rick Dale (0000-0001-7865-474X, University of California, Los Angeles), Robert D Hawkins (0000-0001-9089-8544, University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 1037-1057 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open MIND (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2470-2986 • E-ISSN: 2470-2986 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/opmi_a_00155 |
| PMID | 39229610 |
| OpenAlex | W4402037109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 173 |
A large program of research has aimed to ground large-scale cultural phenomena in processes taking place within individual minds. For example, investigating whether individual agents equipped with the right social learning strategies can enable cumulative cultural evolution given long enough time horizons. However, this approach often omits the critical group-level processes that mediate between individual agents and multi-generational societies. Here, we argue that interacting groups are a necessary and explanatory level of analysis, linking individual and collective intelligence through two characteristic feedback loops. In the first loop, more sophisticated individual-level social learning mechanisms based on Theory of Mind facilitate group-level complementarity, allowing distributed knowledge to be compositionally recombined in groups; these group-level innovations, in turn, ease the cognitive load on individuals. In the second loop, societal-level processes of cumulative culture provide groups with new cognitive technologies, including shared language and conceptual abstractions, which set in motion new group-level processes to further coordinate, recombine, and innovate. Taken together, these cycles establish group-level interaction as a dual engine of intelligence, catalyzing both individual cognition and cumulative culture
Cultural intelligence · Knowledge management · Sociology · Chemistry · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Language and cultural evolution · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |