Presentation
Social offloading: a collaborative mindset can reduce interference from visual distractors
SessionPoster Session 2
DescriptionWhen humans team up, both costs and benefits on individual performances have been reported. The interference account proposes costs of teaming up due to distraction from our main task which are related to our teammates (e.g., Sebanz et al., 2005; Böckler et al., 2012). The offloading account proposes benefits of teaming up due to distribution of labor between team members (e.g., Sellaro et al., 2020; Tufft & Richardson, 2020). In the present work, we asked dyadic teams to engage in a joint attention task that has been used in prior work (Böckler et al., 2012) to investigate whether the interference or the offloading account is supported. Here, we provide evidence that interference costs could be flipped into an offloading benefit by working on different parts of the same stimulus simultaneously instead of working o different stimuli in a sequential manner. Future efforts should be targeted at the underlying attentional and cognitive mechanisms and the potential role of motivation.
Event Type
Poster
TimeWednesday, October 15th5:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
LocationRiverside East