Dyadic division of labor: Effects of individual effectivities, task difficulty, and communicative abilities.

IF 3.7 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-20 DOI:10.1037/xge0001956

Megan Chiovaro, Alexandra Paxton

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Abstract

The present experiments aim to identify the contexts and constraints that give rise to effective social coordination in a novel division-of-labor task, a gamified model of honey bee nectar processing. Experiment 1 investigated the interaction of task demand and individual effectivities on task efficiency and deterministic movement behavior in dyads. Experiment 2 replicated and extended Experiment 1 by adding a condition related to communicative abilities. Results showed that increasing task demand often resulted in increased coordination and synchronization, regardless of task-switching abilities or communicative abilities. Additionally, restricting individuals' abilities to switch roles during more difficult tasks improved performance. Hypotheses relating to communication were largely unsupported; however, trends suggested that restricting communication could be beneficial for coordination and efficiency if the system were given more time to adjust to their communicative abilities. Together, these constraints and contextual factors provide a starting point for investigating coordination in goal-oriented, division-of-labor settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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二元分工：个人效能、任务难度和沟通能力的影响。

本实验旨在确定在一个新的劳动分工任务中产生有效社会协调的背景和约束，这是一个蜜蜂花蜜加工的游戏化模型。实验1考察任务需求和个体效率对二人组任务效率和确定性运动行为的影响。实验二复制并扩展了实验一，增加了与交际能力相关的条件。结果表明，无论任务转换能力或沟通能力如何，任务需求的增加往往导致协调和同步能力的提高。此外，限制个人在更困难的任务中转换角色的能力可以提高表现。与交流有关的假设在很大程度上没有得到支持；但是，趋势表明，如果给该系统更多的时间来适应他们的沟通能力，限制沟通可能有利于协调和效率。总之，这些约束和背景因素为研究目标导向的劳动分工环境中的协调提供了一个起点。（PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2026 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

4.90%

发文量

300

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.