In One Lifespan

From critical thinking to creativity and more.

Michael Hogan Ph.D.

The Experience of Oneness

Research on meditation and mindfulness is flourishing. However, recent Western accounts of mindfulness depart from Eastern traditions in important ways.

Critical Thinking Dispositions

It’s not easy to find reliable and valid scales to measure critical thinking dispositions. We worked with students and educators to develop a new measure.

Grandmothers, Teachers, and Systems Thinking Facilitators

The idea that teams can engage in systems thinking without facilitation is akin to the idea that children can develop knowledge without guidance from teachers.

I Trust You, You Trust Me

When temporary teams are working on non-routine tasks, and when different team members have complementary knowledge, low team trust may prompt better team performance.

Team Trust and Team Performance

Does this mean that lower levels of trust in a team might, under certain conditions, facilitate better team performance, or is this idea sacrilege?

Teamwork and Societal Problem Solving

We sought to understand the typical challenges that teams face as they work to integrate content expertise and methodological expertise when addressing complex societal problems.

Collective Behavior Algorithms and Group Size

Smaller groups are more agile in that they can more readily self-correct across multiple rounds of decision making, which larger groups are slower to do.

Collectivism and Individualism

Research suggests that groups perform at their creative best when members embrace their own individual identity and when they value the group as a collective.

Sabotage in Academia

Sabotage in the workplace is not something we think about every day, and it might seem strange to think about sabotage behaviours playing out in academic work settings.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene: 7

Notwithstanding the uniqueness of human beings, a focus on the broadest timescale of analysis reminds us that evolution unites Homo sapiens with all other living systems.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene - 6

Time perspective helps to open our awareness to the fullness of the world we live in, and the wonderful complexity of our living system.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene - 5

There are five disciplines that need to be mastered.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene - 4

We need to broaden the scope of our thinking in relation to human intelligence.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene - 3

Embracing collective intelligence means embracing a new adventure along a new and uncertain path.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene - 2

The first century of our ‘third’ millennium is an incredibly fascinating and unique point in human history.

Collective Intelligence in the Holocene - 1

Fixed beliefs may lead us to ignore aspects of reality.

A Quantum Leap for Literacy?

In recent years, technology has emerged that creates new possibilities for storytelling, creativity and creative education. But how do we design pedagogically valuable ebooks?

Intelligence, Education, Personality, and Social Mobility

What predicts upward social mobility? We identified four important factors—education, intelligence, higher openness and lower neuroticism.

Interdisciplinary Education and the Student Voice

Interdisciplinary education and practice implies certain qualities. Students highlight the importance of four qualities: openness, creativity, bridging, and perspective-taking.

Exercising our Freedom and Intelligence: Part 9

Groups working to maximize their collective understanding of societal problems need a space where they are free to exercise their intelligence.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence: Part 8

The future is uncertain. There is little doubt about that. Scenario-based collective intelligence design may help us to shape the future, specifically, through our innovations.

Creating eBooks for Children - Let's Do It Together!

Story books for children have a long history and are universally valued by children and parents. Digital stories for children offer new ways to share stories and advance literacy.

The City Environment and Happiness Across the Lifespan

Millions of people migrate every year from rural to urban areas. Recent research helps us understand how city environments influence happiness and health across the lifespan.

Exercising our Freedom and Intelligence: Part 7

In the Roman Republic, freedom had a unique meaning.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence: Part 6

Different collective intelligence methods and different norms of behaviour will be needed to maximize successful workings for a team, depending on the task at hand.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence: Part 5

Teams have the potential to develop a more comprehensive understanding of a problem than an individual working alone. However, this depends on the methodology they use.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence Part 4

Societal problems cannot be solved in the same sense as arithmetic problems are solved.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence Part 3

If we wish to build an applied social science grounded in the principles and practice of collective intelligence, then we need to understand team communication.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence Part 2

The ideal of freedom as non-domination implies that citizens are granted a status that guards them against private power or dominium and public power or imperium.

Exercising Our Freedom and Intelligence Part 1

Indeed, if Spinoza was right, we may need to understand teams in order to be free.

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