Are You Keeping an Eye on Me? The Influence of Competition and Cooperation on Joint Simon Task Performance.

ABSTRACT: Social interaction plays an important role in human life. While there are instances that require cooperation, there are others that force people to compete rather than to cooperate, in order to achieve certain goals. A key question is how the deployment of attention differs between cooperative and competitive situation; however, empirical investigations have yielded inconsistent results. By manipulating the (in-)dependence of individuals via performance-contingent incentives, in a visual go-nogo Simon task the current study aimed at improving our understanding of complementary task performance in a joint action context. In the independent condition each participant received what s/he achieves; in the cooperative condition each participant received the half of what both achieved, and in the

SUBMITTER: Mendl J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085593 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature