Ülker Oktay, Bodemer Daniel
Research Methods in Psychology-Technology, Learning, Collaboration, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 65, 47057, Duisburg, Germany.
Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2025 Aug 3;10(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s41235-025-00656-z.
Remembering information about others is important but challenging in various social contexts. For instance, in long-term collaborative educational settings, students often need to choose peers for academic support. In different contexts, the selection process can depend on group awareness, i.e., the state of being informed about relevant social or cognitive characteristics of (potential) learning partners, like their participation or competence. However, selection can also depend on memory for different group awareness information on peers, which is not always accurate. An experimental study (N = 85) examined how type (participation vs. competence) and level (high vs. medium vs. low) of presented group awareness information influence learning partner selection in two phases (when information is present and when it is remembered). Higher levels were associated with higher selection probabilities, regardless of information type. Social comparison tendencies were associated with avoiding low participation partners. Moreover, we analyzed memory for group awareness information with multinomial processing tree model-based analyses: high and low participation levels were remembered better than medium levels, whereas high competence was remembered better than medium and low competence. Findings suggest that learners use different approach and avoidance strategies for choosing learning partners based on the type of given information.
在各种社交情境中，记住关于他人的信息很重要，但也具有挑战性。例如，在长期的合作教育环境中，学生经常需要选择同伴以获得学业支持。在不同情境下，选择过程可能取决于群体意识，即了解（潜在）学习伙伴的相关社会或认知特征的状态，比如他们的参与度或能力。然而，选择也可能取决于对同伴不同群体意识信息的记忆，而这种记忆并不总是准确的。一项实验研究（N = 85）考察了所呈现的群体意识信息的类型（参与度与能力）和水平（高、中、低）如何在两个阶段（信息呈现时和记忆时）影响学习伙伴的选择。无论信息类型如何，更高的水平都与更高的选择概率相关。社会比较倾向与避免选择参与度低的伙伴有关。此外，我们使用基于多项式加工树模型的分析方法来分析对群体意识信息的记忆：高参与度和低参与度水平比中等水平更容易被记住，而高能力比中等和低能力更容易被记住。研究结果表明，学习者会根据给定信息的类型使用不同的选择和回避策略来选择学习伙伴。
