The fruits of our labour: Interpersonal coordination generates commitment by signalling a willingness to adapt.

ABSTRACT: Countless everyday activities require us to coordinate our actions and decisions with others. Coordination not only enables us to achieve instrumental goals, but has also been shown to boost commitment, leading people to persevere with an interaction even when their motivation wavers. So far, little is known about the mechanism by which coordination generates commitment. To investigate this, we conducted two experiments that represented very different coordination problems: coordination of movement timing on a joint drumming task (Experiment 1) and coordination of decision-making on a joint object matching task (Experiment 2). In both experiments, the similarity of the participant and partner was manipulated by varying whether or not they had perceptual access to the participant's w

SUBMITTER: McEllin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773151 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature