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Exchanging social positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task.
- Source :
- European Journal of Social Psychology; Aug2011, Vol. 41 Issue 5, p608-616, 9p, 3 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- When people occupy different social positions within a cooperative task they experience discrepant role and situation demands and thus have divergent perspectives. The reported research predicts that exchanging social positions within a cooperative task can overcome divergences of perspective. This prediction was tested in two experiments using the Communication Conflict Situation. The first experiment ( n = 88) found that position exchange increased the ability of dyads to solve a communication conflict arising through discrepant perspectives. The second experiment ( n = 120) found that the effect of position exchange exceeds that of purely cognitive perspective taking, thus suggesting that it cannot be reduced to a purely cognitive process. Exchanging social positions is a newly identified and powerful social mechanism through which perspective taking, within a cooperative task, can be enhanced. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CHI-squared test
COMMUNICATION
CONFLICT (Psychology)
COOPERATIVENESS
EXPERIMENTAL design
GROUP identity
PROBLEM solving
PSYCHOLOGY
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
STATISTICS
T-test (Statistics)
TIME
THEORY
REPEATED measures design
DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00462772
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 63071843
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.788