Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
Our research investigates how insight, influence, competence, and leadership dynamics shape team decision-making. Across two studies (711 participants, 221 teams), we found that while individual competence is vital, optimal performance requires distinct metacognitive insights into both self and team capabilities. During group conflict, individual influence is driven by competence, confidence, and perceived leadership. However, at the team level, universally high leadership perceptions correlate with poorer outcomes, whereas mutual perceptions of warmth predict superior performance. Crucially, a universal desire for leadership within teams was associated with lower competence, lower insight, and reduced performance. We suggest the potential for integrating these behavioural findings with social neuroscience by exploring how the cognitive tension between collaborative and competitive group dynamic maps onto underlying neural mechanisms regulating metacognition, theory of mind, and dominance circuitry.