Self-improvement for team-players: The effects of individual effort on aggregated group information

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Rands, Sean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESS; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION; SELF CONTROL; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEAMWORK; ANIMAL; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; HUMANS;

EID: 77955371796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011705     Document Type: Article

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