ArticleScientific reports2018
Effort and performance in a cooperative activity are boosted by perception of a partner's effort.
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- Perceiving others' cognitive effort through movement: Path length, speed, and time.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Cooperation objective evaluation in aviation: validation and comparison of two novel approaches in simulated environment.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2024Article
- An action-observation method for studying social perception: a mini-review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Should I stay or should I go? Three-year-olds' reactions to appropriate motives to interrupt a joint activity.PloS one · 2023Article
- The fruits of our labour: Interpersonal coordination generates commitment by signalling a willingness to adapt.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Computing Joint Action Costs: Co-Actors Minimize the Aggregate Individual Costs in an Action Sequence.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2021Article
- Effort Perception is Made More Accurate with More Effort and When Cooperating with Slackers.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Feeling committed to a robot: why, what, when and how?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
In everyday life, people must often determine how much time and effort to allocate to cooperative activities. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that the perception of others' effort investment in a cooperative activity may elicit a sense of commitment, leading people to allocate more time and effort to the activity themselves. We developed an effortful task in which participants were required to move an increasingly difficult bar slider on a screen while simultaneously reacting to the appearance of virtual coins and earn points to share between themselves and their partner. This design allowed us to operationalize commitment in terms of participants' investment of time and effort. Crucially, the cooperative activity could only be performed after a partner had completed a complementary activity which we manipulated to be either easy (Low Effort condition) or difficult (High Effort condition). Our results revealed participants invested more effort, persisted longer and performed better in the High Effort condition, i.e. when they perceived their partner to have invested more effort. These results support the hypothesis that the perception of a partner's effort boosts one's own sense of commitment to a cooperative activity, and consequently also one's willingness to invest time and effort.
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