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Recall suffers from collaboration: Joint recall effects of friendship and task complexity
Author(s) -
Andersson Jan,
Rönnberg Jerker
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2350090303
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , encoding (memory) , friendship , task (project management) , recall test , cognitive psychology , free recall , episodic memory , social psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , management , neuroscience , economics
Collaborative recall in episodic memory tasks was investigated in two experiments. The experiments were explicitly designed to investigate how the interaction between two subjects influences group productivity. Subjects were requested to recall twice, first individually, and second, in different subject constellations (individually, or in dyads, as friends or non‐friends). Experiment 1 employed free recall of words and story recall. In Experiment 2, a video‐taped lecture on child development was recalled. The observed score at the second recall (Recall 2) was compared with the nominal predicted score, based on the initial recall. The results of the experiments are summarized and discussed in four clusters: (1) observed productivity for dyads never reached their predicted potential; (2) the negative effects of collaborative recall can be reduced; (3) friends rather than non‐friends, and complex rather than simple tasks, reduce the loss in productivity; and (4) the data also suggest that encoding alone is superior to collaborative encoding.