» Veröffentlicht am
6. Juli 2023
New paper by Sebastian Sattler and colleagues in the European Journal of Social Psychology about sleep-deprived or cognitively enhanced colleagues and effects on group performance
Sattler, S., Faber, N. Häusser, J. (2023, online first):
Working with a sleep-deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member
compromises motivation to contribute to group performance How Enhanced
and Impaired Colleagues Affect Performance Norms and Work Motivation. European Journal of Social Psychology. ►LINK
Abstract
How
does knowing another team member is cognitively impaired or enhanced
affect people's motivation to contribute to the team's performance?
Building on the Effects of Grouping on Impairments and Enhancements
(GIE) framework, we conducted two between-subjects experiments (Ntotal
= 2,352) with participants from a representative, nationwide sample of
the working population in Germany. We found that another group member's
impairment (sleep deprivation) and enhancement (taking enhancement
drugs) lowered participants’ intentions to contribute to the team's
performance. These effects were mediated by lowered perceived competence
(enhancement and impairment) and warmth (only enhancement) of the other
group member. The reason for being impaired or enhanced (altruistic vs.
egoistic reason) moderated the indirect effect of the impairment on
intended effort via warmth. Our results illustrate that people's work
motivation is influenced by the psychophysiological states of other
group members. Hence, the enhancement of one group member can have the
paradoxical effect of impairing the performance of another.
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