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Performance schemata in dyadic competition and cooperation.

Vincent Dru1, Patricia Rulence-Pâques, Etienne Mullet

  • 1Nanterre University.

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People perceive performance by assessing task difficulty and integrating ability and motivation cues. In competitive and cooperative tasks, judgments of individual or team performance rely on a simple additive rule.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Decision Making

Background:

  • Understanding how individuals perceive performance is crucial in social contexts.
  • Performance schemata involve beliefs about the relationship between ability, motivation, and performance outcomes.
  • Dyadic interactions, both competitive and cooperative, present unique challenges for performance judgment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate performance schemata in dyadic competitive and cooperative situations.
  • To determine how individuals integrate information about ability and motivation when judging performance.
  • To identify the cognitive rules used in assessing performance in social interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Participants (N=104) judged an individual's performance in a competitive dyad, given communicated ability and motivation levels.

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  • Experiment 2: Participants (N=140) judged individual or team performance in a cooperative dyad, using similar materials.
  • Utilized established models of information integration and performance judgment.

    • Main Results:

    • In competitive scenarios, judgments initially considered task difficulty, followed by integrating ability and motivation using a complex rule.
    • In cooperative scenarios, both individual and team performance judgments were based on a simple additive rule.
    • Demonstrated a shift in judgment strategy based on the nature of the dyadic interaction.

    Conclusions:

    • Performance perception in dyadic settings is influenced by the competitive or cooperative nature of the interaction.
    • Individuals employ different cognitive strategies, ranging from complex to simple additive rules, for performance judgment.
    • Findings contribute to understanding social cognition and decision-making in interactive contexts.