Coordination and Collective Performance: Cooperative Goals Boost Interpersonal Synchrony and Task Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Whether it be a rugby team or a rescue crew, ensuring peak group performance is a primary goal during collective activities. In reality, however, groups often suffer from productivity losses that can lead to less than optimal outputs. Where researchers have focused on this problem, inefficiencies in the way team members coordinate their efforts has been identified as one potent source of productivity decrements. Here, we set out to explore whether performance on a simple object movement task is shaped by the spontaneous emergence of interpersonally coordinated behavior. Forty-six pairs of participants were instructed to either compete or cooperate in order to empty a container of approximately 100 small plastic balls as quickly and accurately as possible. Each trial was recorded to video a

SUBMITTER: Allsop JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5037181 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature