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How Teams Can Function When They Have Conflicting Goals

The Horizons Tracker

Teams are understandably most effective when their goals are both clearly articulated, and shared between all participants. The researchers asked pairs of volunteers to complete a task whereby each participant was assigned a competing set of movements on a mechanical apparatus. Optimal cooperation.

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Do People Trust Robots As Much As Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers conducted a trust game experiment, whereby human volunteers were asked to bestow a $10 endowment to a partner, who was either a human, a robot, or a robot acting on behalf of a human. It was in many ways a classic game theory setup, with the human volunteer knowing that gains were to be made, but trust would be key.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

Ask Atma

Game theory applications – tapping into mutualistic dynamics. If you know any companies that would like to apply for participation please let me know. Some of the tools in this suite include: Screening partners, and hires with face reading and other cutting edge profiling techniques including clique psychology. Thank you.

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Research: Missing Product Information Doesn’t Bother Consumers as Much as It Should

Harvard Business Review

This is in contrast to norms of rationality that a large body of economic research has developed over decades. Game theorists have long studied how the “game” of communication and disclosure should play out between consumers and marketers, and how consumers should interpret missing information (i.e.,

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The Nationalist Leanings Of International Collaboration

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The volunteers participated in the classic game theory task of the prisoner’s dilemma. Their partner in the game was either from their own country or another country. The results show that people from every single country prefer to cooperate with their fellow citizens rather than foreigners.

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