Collective Induction Without Cooperation? Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Cooperative Groups and Competitive Auctions
Document Type
Article
Keywords
collective induction, reasoning errors, knowledge transfer, cooperative groups, competitive auctions
Disciplines
Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
There is strong evidence that groups perform better than individuals do on intellective tasks with demonstrably correct solutions. Typically, these studies assume that group members share common goals. The authors extend this line of research by replacing standard face-to-face group interactions with competitive auctions, allowing for conflicting individual incentives. In a series of studies involving the well-known Wason selection task, they demonstrate that competitive auctions induce learning effects equally impressive as those of standard group interactions, and they uncover specific and general knowledge transfers from these institutions to new reasoning problems. The authors identify payoff feedback and information pooling as the driving factors underlying these findings, and they explain these factors within the theoretical framework of collective induction.
Article Number
1036
Publication Date
2007
Peer Reviewed
1
Recommended Citation
Maciejovsky, Boris and Budescu, David V., "Collective Induction Without Cooperation? Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Cooperative Groups and Competitive Auctions" (2007). Psychology Faculty Publications. 38.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/psych_facultypubs/38
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APA Citation: Maciejovsky, B. & Budescu, D. V. (2007). Collective induction without cooperation? Learning and knowledge transfer in cooperative groups and competitive auctions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(5), 854-870. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.5.854