Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspect...

Research

Associated organisational unit

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Published

Standard

Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task. / Gillespie, Alex; Richardson, Beth.
In: European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 41, No. 5, 08.2011, p. 608-616.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Harvard

Gillespie, A & Richardson, B 2011, 'Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task', European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 608-616. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.788

APA

Gillespie, A., & Richardson, B. (2011). Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(5), 608-616. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.788

Vancouver

Gillespie A, Richardson B. Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task. European Journal of Social Psychology. 2011 Aug;41(5):608-616. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.788

Author

Gillespie, Alex ; Richardson, Beth. / Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task. In: European Journal of Social Psychology. 2011 ; Vol. 41, No. 5. pp. 608-616.

Bibtex

@article{40bcd75e7abf4389a6b023f29df2fa7a,
title = "Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task",
abstract = "When people occupy different social positions within a cooperative task they experience discrepant role and situation demands and thus have divergent perspectives. The reported research predicts that exchanging social positions within a cooperative task can overcome divergences of perspective. This prediction was tested in two experiments using the Communication Conflict Situation. The first experiment (n = 88) found that position exchange increased the ability of dyads to solve a communication conflict arising through discrepant perspectives. The second experiment (n = 120) found that the effect of position exchange exceeds that of purely cognitive perspective taking, thus suggesting that it cannot be reduced to a purely cognitive process. Exchanging social positions is a newly identified and powerful social mechanism through which perspective taking, within a cooperative task, can be enhanced. ",
author = "Alex Gillespie and Beth Richardson",
year = "2011",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1002/ejsp.788",
language = "English",
volume = "41",
pages = "608--616",
journal = "European Journal of Social Psychology",
issn = "1099-0992",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "5",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Exchanging Social Positions: Enhancing perspective taking within a cooperative problem solving task

AU - Gillespie, Alex

AU - Richardson, Beth

PY - 2011/8

Y1 - 2011/8

N2 - When people occupy different social positions within a cooperative task they experience discrepant role and situation demands and thus have divergent perspectives. The reported research predicts that exchanging social positions within a cooperative task can overcome divergences of perspective. This prediction was tested in two experiments using the Communication Conflict Situation. The first experiment (n = 88) found that position exchange increased the ability of dyads to solve a communication conflict arising through discrepant perspectives. The second experiment (n = 120) found that the effect of position exchange exceeds that of purely cognitive perspective taking, thus suggesting that it cannot be reduced to a purely cognitive process. Exchanging social positions is a newly identified and powerful social mechanism through which perspective taking, within a cooperative task, can be enhanced.

AB - When people occupy different social positions within a cooperative task they experience discrepant role and situation demands and thus have divergent perspectives. The reported research predicts that exchanging social positions within a cooperative task can overcome divergences of perspective. This prediction was tested in two experiments using the Communication Conflict Situation. The first experiment (n = 88) found that position exchange increased the ability of dyads to solve a communication conflict arising through discrepant perspectives. The second experiment (n = 120) found that the effect of position exchange exceeds that of purely cognitive perspective taking, thus suggesting that it cannot be reduced to a purely cognitive process. Exchanging social positions is a newly identified and powerful social mechanism through which perspective taking, within a cooperative task, can be enhanced.

U2 - 10.1002/ejsp.788

DO - 10.1002/ejsp.788

M3 - Journal article

VL - 41

SP - 608

EP - 616

JO - European Journal of Social Psychology

JF - European Journal of Social Psychology

SN - 1099-0992

IS - 5

ER -