The social situation affects how we process feedback about our actions

Czeszumski, Artur; Ehinger, Benedikt V.; Wahn, Basil; König, Peter

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“…For instance, a future study could assess the role of verbal communication as opposed to receiving action information in predicting group benefits. Other non-redundant predictors might include personality traits of the group members, e.g., those relevant to social cognition such as empathy (Czeszumski et al, 2019;Davis, 1983). Moreover, future studies could test to what extent the predictors used in the present model are applicable to other joint tasks.…”

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Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Wahn

Czeszumski

Labusch

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Atten Percept Psychophys

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In daily life, humans often perform visual tasks, such as solving puzzles or searching for a friend in a crowd. Performing these visual searches jointly with a partner can be beneficial: The two task partners can devise effective division of labour strategies and thereby outperform individuals who search alone. To date, it is unknown whether these group benefits scale up to triads or whether the cost of coordinating with others offsets any potential benefit for group sizes above two. To address this question, we compare participants' performance in a visual search task that they perform either alone, in dyads, or in triads. When the search task is performed jointly, co-actors receive information about each other's gaze location. After controlling for speed-accuracy trade-offs, we found that triads searched faster than dyads, suggesting that group benefits do scale up to triads. Moreover, we found that the triads' divided the search space in accordance with the co-actors' individual search performances but searched less efficiently than dyads. We also present a linear model to predict group benefits, which accounts for 70% of the variance. The model includes our experimental factors and a set of non-redundant predictors, quantifying the similarities in the individual performances, the collaboration between co-actors, and the estimated benefits that co-actors would attain without collaborating. Overall, the present study demonstrates that group benefits scale up to larger group sizes, but the additional gains are attenuated by the increased costs associated with devising effective division of labour strategies.

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Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

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Labusch

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“…Another set of predictors for which the contribution towards predicting group benefits in joint visuospatial tasks has not been assessed are personality traits relevant for social interactions (e.g., empathy) and the interpersonal relation between co-actors (i.e., to what extent they know each other). In particular, previous research found significant correlations between personality traits related to empathy (assessed with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index questionnaire (Davis et al, 1980)) and joint performance (Ford and Aberdein, 2015) or neurophysiological correlates of error processing in joint tasks (Czeszumski et al, 2019;Koban et al, 2012;Ruissen et al, 2018).…”

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Predicting group benefits in joint multiple object tracking

Wahn¹,

König²,

Kingstone³

2020

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In daily life, humans often perform visual tasks together such as, for instance, solving puzzles or looking for a misplaced key. In such tasks, humans tend to distribute task demands, enabling them to reach a higher performance compared to performing the same task alone – a group benefit. Research on group benefits in joint visual tasks has found that the availability of performance feedback and information about each other’s actions are two important factors influencing group benefits. Yet, no study has systematically investigated for these two factors which information is minimally required for co-actors to 1) attain group benefits, 2) devise collaborative strategies, and 3) further extend an already attained group benefit. Across eight experiments, we systematically varied the information co-actors received in a joint multiple object tracking task along an information continuum to address these three points. We find that co-actors 1) already attained group benefits without receiving any information, 2) minimally required team performance feedback or information about the co-actor’s actions to collaborate, and 3) devised collaborative strategies more quickly with additional information. Furthermore, we used a linear regression to predict group benefits and find that several factors (including personality traits) explain non-redundant variance. Collectively, our findings suggest that group benefits in joint visuospatial tasks come for "free" as no information exchange between co-actors is required to attain them. To further boost group performance, co-actors make use of coordination mechanisms to devise labour division strategies and these mechanisms depend on exchanging action information and/or receiving team performance feedback.

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“…To date, however, little research has explored if the coordination associated with labor division is related to physiological correlates of mental effort while physiological correlates in joint tasks of, for instance, error processing (Czeszumski et al, 2019;Loehr et al, 2013), decision-making (Baumgart et al, 2020) or leader-follower dynamics (Konvalinka et al, 2014) have been explored.…”

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Coordination effort in joint action is reflected in pupil size

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Ruuskanen²,

Kingstone³

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Humans often perform visual tasks together, and when doing so, they tend to devise division of labor strategies to share the load. Implementing such strategies, however, is effortful as co-actors need to coordinate their actions. We tested if pupil size – a physiological correlate of mental effort – can detect such a coordination effort in a multiple object tracking task (MOT). Participants performed the MOT task jointly with a computer partner and either devised a division of labor strategy (main experiment) or the labor division was already pre-determined (control experiment). We observed that pupil sizes increase relative to performing the MOT task alone in the main experiment while this is not the case in the control experiment. These findings suggest that pupil size can detect a rise in coordination effort, extending the view that pupil size indexes mental effort across a wide range of cognitively demanding tasks.

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The social situation affects how we process feedback about our actions

Cited by 3 publications

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Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Predicting group benefits in joint multiple object tracking

Coordination effort in joint action is reflected in pupil size

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