Joshua Becker

Joshua Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business at University College London. His research focuses on collective intelligence, examining how group and organizational design influence performance in tasks such as innovation, decision making, and forecasting. His work explores numeric estimate accuracy in groups, including forecasting, hiring decisions, market analyses, and product design. His research has been published in Science, Management Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Harvard Business Review. Prior to graduate school, Becker worked professionally in mediation and communication training, completing hundreds of mediation sessions. He currently volunteers as a neighbor mediator in London.

Joshua Becker is an associate professor at UCL School of Management, specializing in organizational behavior, collective intelligence, group decision-making, and social networks. His research explores how social dynamics influence collective intelligence, focusing on network structures, information-sharing, and the diffusion of innovation. Becker's work includes experimental studies on tipping points in social conventions, complex contagions, and the role of online social networks in shaping behavior. He investigates how structured information-sharing can reduce errors and improve decision-making in groups. His research also examines the impact of large language models on collective intelligence and the accuracy of crowd-based judgments. Becker's contributions highlight the interplay between individual and group behavior in social systems.