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.
Bry
Clémentine
C
Department of Psychology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.
Meyer
Thierry
T
Oberlé
Dominique
D
Gherson
Thibault
T
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