Aug 31, 2026 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
New Wharton research suggests decades of conflicting evidence can be explained by one overlooked factor: the task itself. Do groups outperform individuals? For more than 80 years, researchers across the social and behavioral sciences have wrestled with that...
Sep 13, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
When a Republican and a Democrat sit down to discuss gun control, how is it going to go? Conversations between Republicans and Democrats can be either productive or polarizing and social scientists want to understand what makes conversations between people from...
Sep 6, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
Penn Ph.D. student Xinlan Emily Hu leads a group of budding engineers and social scientists who study communication across teams. The group has developed a new toolkit aimed at helping researchers analyze and measure teamwork. A group of graduate and undergraduate...
Aug 13, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
Emily Hu, a fourth year Wharton Operations, Information, and Decisions PhD student at the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab), has just launched her award-winning Team Communication Toolkit at the Academy of Management Conference on August 12 in Chicago. This...
Jan 11, 2023 | Group Dynamics, News
Linnea Gandhi and Emily Hu, both PhD students in Wharton’s Operations, Information and Decisions Department (OIDD), have received AAW funding for their work at the CSSLab. Pictured: Linnea Gandhi (left) and Emily Hu (right) sparked interest and excitement in...
