Curşeu Petru L, Meslec Nicoleta, Pluut Helen, Lucas Gerardus J M
Department of Psychology, "Babeş-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Department of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University Tilburg, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2015 Sep 22;6:1375. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01375. eCollection 2015.
In a field study (148 participants organized in 38 groups) we tested the effect of group synergy and one's position in relation to the collaborative zone of proximal development (CZPD) on the change of individual decision-making competencies. We used two parallel sets of decision tasks reported in previous research to test rationality and we evaluated individual decision-making competencies in the pre-group and post-group conditions as well as group rationality (as an emergent group level phenomenon). We used multilevel modeling to analyze the data and the results showed that members of synergetic groups had a higher cognitive gain as compared to members of non-synergetic groups, while highly rational members (members above the CZPD) had lower cognitive gains compared to less rational group members (members situated below the CZPD). These insights extend the literature on group-to-individual transfer of learning and have important practical implications as they show that group dynamics influence the development of individual decision-making competencies.
在一项实地研究中(148名参与者分成38个小组),我们测试了群体协同效应以及个体相对于合作性近端发展区(CZPD)的位置对个体决策能力变化的影响。我们使用了先前研究中报告的两组平行决策任务来测试理性,并在分组前和分组后条件下评估个体决策能力以及群体理性(作为一种涌现的群体层面现象)。我们使用多层模型分析数据,结果表明,与非协同小组的成员相比,协同小组的成员有更高的认知收获,而高度理性的成员(CZPD以上的成员)与理性程度较低的小组成员(位于CZPD以下的成员)相比,认知收获较低。这些见解扩展了关于从群体到个体的学习迁移的文献,并且具有重要的实际意义,因为它们表明群体动态会影响个体决策能力的发展。