People Evaluate Idle Collaborators Based on their Impact on Task Efficiency

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<p>Humans collaborate to improve productivity, but when is it acceptable for a collaborator to remain idle? Theories from distributed computer systems suggest that, depending on the task structure, division of labor leads to diminishing returns in efficiency as group size increases. We examine whether people are aware of these limitations to collaboration, and how considerations of task efficiency may affect the p...

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c8908d53-a58b-597b-bf10-7e76f97636d4

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10.31234/osf.io/2t9w5