Team reasoning: solving the puzzle of coordination

Colman, Andrew M. and Gold, Natalie ORCID: 0000-0003-0706-1618 (2018) Team reasoning: solving the puzzle of coordination. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25 (5). 1770 - 1783. ISSN 1069-9384

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Abstract

In many everyday activities, individuals have a common interest in coordinating their actions. Orthodox game theory cannot explain such intuitively obvious forms of coordination as the selection of an outcome that is best for all in a common-interest game. Theories of team reasoning provide a convincing solution by proposing that people are sometimes motivated to maximize the collective payoff of a group and that they adopt a distinctive mode of reasoning from preferences to decisions. This also offers a compelling explanation of cooperation in social dilemmas. A review of team reasoning and related theories suggests how team reasoning could be incorporated into psychological theories of group identification and social value orientation theory to provide a deeper understanding of these phenomena.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.springer.com/journal/13423
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2021 12:24
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2025 18:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109252

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