In no uncertain terms: Group cohesion did not affect exploration and group decision making under low uncertainty.

ABSTRACT: Group decision making under uncertainty often requires groups to balance exploration of their environment with exploitation of the seemingly best option. In order to succeed at this collective induction, groups need to merge the knowledge of all group members and combine goal-oriented and social motivations (i.e., group cohesion). This paper presents three studies that investigate whether more cohesive groups perform worse at collective induction tasks as they spend less time exploring possible options. Study 1 simulates group decision making with the ε-greedy algorithm in order to identify suitable manipulations of group cohesion and investigate how differing exploration lengths can affect outcomes of group decisions. Study 2 (N = 108, 18 groups á 6 participants) used an experiment

SUBMITTER: Ritter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905233 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature