Interpersonal coordination in joint multiple object tracking

verfasst von

Basil Wahn, Peter König, Alan Kingstone

Abstract

People often perform visual tasks together, for example, when looking for a misplaced key. When per-forming such tasks jointly, people coordinate their actions to divide the labor, for example, by looking for the misplaced key in different rooms. This way, they tend to perform better together than individu-ally—they attain a group benefit. A crucial factor determining whether (and to what extent) individuals attain a group benefit is the amount of information they receive about each other’s actions and perform-ance. We systematically varied, across 8 conditions, the information participant pairs received while jointly performing a visual task. We find that participants can attain a group benefit without receiving any information (and thus cannot coordinate their actions). However, actions are coordinated and the group benefit is enhanced if participants receive information about each other’s actions or performance. If both types of information are received, participants are faster in creating efficient labor divisions. To create divisions, participants used the screen center as a reference to divide the labor into a left and right side. When participants cannot coordinate actions, they exhibit a bias toward choosing the same side, but they forgo this bias once action coordination is possible, thereby boosting group performance.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Psychologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Osnabrück
University of British Columbia

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Band

47

Seiten

1166-1181

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0096-1523

Publikationsdatum

2021

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Experimentelle und kognitive Psychologie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (sonstige), Behaviorale Neurowissenschaften

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000935 (Zugang: Geschlossen)