How Group Discussion Facilitates Performance

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There's also a kind of social facilitation effect. When you're trying to give your reasons in front of a group, just imagining an audience might raise your game. So those are kind of control conditions I want to run because I think that'll be good tests. And then the third thing which I am doing right now is looking at the kind of transaction level about what predicts more successful groups.

Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.

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