Effect of priming cooperation or individualism on a collective and interdependent task: changeover speed in the 4 x 100-meter relay race.
Priming effects of cooperation vs. individualism were investigated on changeover speed within a 4 x 100-m relay race. Ten teams of four adult beginner athletes ran two relays, a pretest race and an experimental race 3 weeks later. Just before the experimental race, athletes were primed with either cooperation or individualism through a scrambled-sentence task. Comparing to the pretest performance, cooperation priming improved baton speed in the exchange zone (+30 cm/s). Individualism priming did not impair changeover performance. The boundary conditions of priming effects applied to collective and interdependent tasks are discussed within the implicit coordination framework.
Department of Psychology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.
Clémentine
C
Bry
Thierry
T
Meyer
Dominique
D
Oberlé
Thibault
T
Gherson
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D012420:Running / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult