Joint Action – ESC Research

Investing in commitment: Persistence in a joint action is enhanced by the perception of a partner’s effort

Published in: Cognition, Volume 174, May 2018, 37-42 Abstract “Can the perception that one’s partner is investing effort generate a sense of commitment to a joint action? To test this, we developed a 2-player version of the classic snake game which became increasingly boring over the course of each round. This enabled us to operationalize commitment […]

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Multi‐Scale Contingencies During Individual and Joint Action

Published in: Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 10, Issue 1, 36-54 Abstract “The present paper describes a joint action paradigm in which individuals or pairs utilized two computer keys to keep a dot stimulus moving inside a larger rectangle. Members of a pair could neither see nor hear each other. This paradigm allowed us to combine