Humans live and work in groups where they face similar, and often shared, problems, ranging from finding resources to avoiding external threats. To solve a problem at hand, they have to make sense of it and develop an accurate idea of a solution. The wisdom of crowds means that the average of a variety of inaccurate ideas, arrived at independently, is often very accurate, whereas social influen...

Previous research indicates that economic agents believe that they perform better than others in a variety of environments. This paper investigates whether or not a similar phenomenon exists for social groups. Students from ten di¤erent student organizations were recruited to participate in an experiment. Subjects revealed their beliefs about their own performance and their group’s performance ...

The value and relevance of indigenous knowledge towards sustainability of human societies drives for its preservation. This work explored the use of Facebook groups to promote indigenous knowledge among Igorot peoples in the diaspora. The virtual communities help intensify the connection of Igorot migrants to their traditional culture despite the challenges of assimilation to a different societ...

12 Abstract The authors work as online tutors for a BSc (Hons) physiotherapy programme at 13 Coventry University in the United Kingdom. This paper represents a stage in our 14 developing understanding, over a 3 year period, of the impact of group dynamics on online 15 interaction among physiotherapy students engaged in sharing with their peers their first 16 experiences of clinical practice. Th...

This paper has examined the perceptions of and, the effect of religion on nuptiality patterns and differentials using qualitative and quantitative data from 600 randomly selected women and focus groups and in-depth interviews among the Atyap in Kaduna State. The study indicates that although marriage is universal, the median age at first marriage was 18 years in 1995 compared to 15 years in 200...

This paper presents a novel experiment on identity and individual social preferences. Using a within subject design and new empirical methods, we find more than twenty percent of subjects destroy total income – at personal cost – to earn more than subjects outside their group. Minimal groups divide subjects according to arbitrary criteria, and political groups divide subjects according to party...

The objective of this study was to determine the value of using social media to communicate child health information to low-income parents. We evaluated qualitative data obtained through focus groups with low-income, predominantly Hispanic parents. Results were mixed; lack of time and credibility were the primary objections parents cited in using social media to obtain information about their c...