Action coordination in groups and individuals: Learning anticipatory control.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionPublished 1 January 2003
Günther Knoblich, J. Scott Jordan
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The results show that groups face additional demands that are harder to overcome when planning needs to be extended into the future.
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When individuals act alone, they can internally coordinate the actions at hand. Such coordination is not feasible when individuals act together in a group. The present research examines to what extent groups encounter specific challenges when acting jointly and whether these challenges impede extending planning into the future. Individuals and groups carried out a tracking task that required learning a new anticipatory control strategy. The results show that groups face additional demands that are harder to overcome when planning needs to be extended into the future. Information about others' actions is a necessary condition for groups to effectively learn to extend their plans. Possible mechanisms for exerting and learning anticipatory control are discussed.
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