Journal article
Team allegiance can lead to both optimistic and pessimistic predictions
Journal of experimental social psychology, Vol.43(2), pp.327-333
2007
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.02.011
Abstract
Although team allegiance is usually associated with optimistic predictions about team performance, the authors hypothesized that preferences for one’s group can also lead to pessimistic predictions. Upon arrival to the laboratory, groups of four participants were split into teams of two based on bogus criteria. Participants were informed that their teammate would compete against a member of the other team in a trivia game consisting of both easy (e.g., “pop culture”) and hard (e.g., “50’s movies”) categories. They provided likelihood estimates regarding outcomes for each category. As predicted, team allegiance inflated participants’ optimism about their teammate winning the easy categories, but deflated optimism about their teammate winning the hard categories. Path analyses supported the proposed account indicating that preferences for a teammate to win led to an enhanced focus on the teammate’s strengths and weaknesses (and neglect of the strengths and weaknesses of the other competitor).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Team allegiance can lead to both optimistic and pessimistic predictions
- Creators
- Zlatan Krizan - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240, United StatesPaul D Windschitl - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental social psychology, Vol.43(2), pp.327-333
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.02.011
- ISSN
- 0022-1031
- eISSN
- 1096-0465
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2007
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984214750702771
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