Liberal Arts and Sciences
Social Science Collaboratory
Led by Nicholas Coles · Psychology
What we study
The Social Science Collaboratory studies collective intelligence, both human and artificial, through global experiments and crowdsourced machine learning. They explore the rise and challenges of big teams in science, from historical projects to modern AI initiatives.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Many Smiles Collaboration
A global experiment documenting the physiological basis of emotional consciousness.
Emotion Physiology and Experience Collaboration
A crowdsourced machine learning project studying emotional experiences.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Affective Images: Methodology and Initial Library
2026 · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
Creates a library of AI-generated images to study emotions across cultures and validates them in global tests.
- Smiling your way to happiness or misery? Experimental tests of competing perspectives
2026 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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- The Rise, Impact, and Imbalances of Big-Team Psychology
2026 · Psychological Science
Analyzes how big-team collaborations increase research impact and highlights cultural biases in authorship.
- A multinational megastudy of the effects of gratitude practices on subjective well-being
2026 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Shows gratitude practices improve mood, optimism, and social relationships in a multinational study.
- Smiling your way to happiness or misery? Experimental tests of competing perspectives [Registered Report - stage II]
2026 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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How to reach out
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