CIRT represents an active research community. Topics currently under investigation include (among others):

Antecedents of swift trust
Comparative judgments/intergroup comparisons
Designing online communities
Dynamic processes in groups
Group vs. organizational influences on turnover and performance
Groups, games, and organizations in the laboratory
Information sharing in decision-making groups
Ingroup/outgroup entitativity in natural groups
Multi-party negotiation
Negotiating communication
Reflexivity and team performance
Social capital
Team conflict
Team diversity
Team newcomer innovation
The role of context in group research
Transactive memory