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Jane C Hu
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Jane C Hu is a science writer whose work has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Nautilus and Science, among others. She lives in Seattle.

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Essay/
Social Psychology
Group smarts

Groupthink can be stultifying. So how do the most successful groups elicit collective intelligence from their members?

Jane C Hu