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Effort and performance in a cooperative activity are boosted by perception of a partner’s effort

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Chennells, Matthew and Michael, John (2018) Effort and performance in a cooperative activity are boosted by perception of a partner’s effort. Scientific Reports, 8 . 15692 . doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34096-1 ISSN 2045-2322.

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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.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: Scientific Reports
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 2045-2322
Official Date: 24 October 2018
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24 October 2018Available
2 October 2018Accepted
Volume: 8
Article Number: 15692
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34096-1
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 4 October 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 24 October 2018
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