Teamwork: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives

N. Gold

There are many walks of life in which teamwork is found and in which, by common consent, it could be better. Yet even the most basic questions about teams remain unresolved. What makes a group of individuals a team? Does teamwork involve a special type of reasoning? What makes teams successful? How do we learn to be team players? This volume brings together, for the first time, contemporary research from across the social sciences, addressing such questions from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.

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Introduction: Teamwork in Theory and in Practice; N.Gold A Theoretical Framework for the Understanding of Teams; M.Gilbert Cognitive Cooperation: When the Going Gets Tough, Think as a Group; D.Sloan Wilson, J.Timmel & R.R.Miller Cooperation, Risk and the Evolution of Teamwork; J.Lazarus & P.Andras Evolution of Teams; D.P.Myatt & C.Wallace Cooperation and Communication: Group Identity or Social Norms?; C.Bicchieri The Psychology of Effective Teamworking; C.Borrill & M.West Teams over Time: A Logical Perspective; W.van der Hoek, M.Pauly & M.Wooldridge The Logic of Team Reasoning; R.Sugden Rationality, Cooperation and Mindreading; S.Hurley Evolution of Cooperation Without Awareness in Minimal Social Situations; A.M.Colman Learning in Robot Teams; J.Wyatt, Y.Matsumura & M.Todd

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PATER ANDRAS Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle, UKCRISTINA BICCHIERI Professor of Philosophy and Decision Sciences and Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania, USACAROL BORRILL Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UKANDREW M. COLMAN Professor of Psychology, University of Leicester, UKMARAGRET GILBERT Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USAWIEBE VAN DER HOEK Professor in Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UKSUSAN HURLEY Professor at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, UKJOHN LAZARUS Reader in Animal Behaviour, University of Newcastle, UKYOSHIYUKI MATSUMURA Lecturer in the Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, JapanRALPH R. MILLER Distinguished Professor of Psychology at SUNY-Binghamton, USADAVID P. MYATT Oxford University Lecturer in Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics, and the John Thomson Fellow and Tutor in Economics at St Catherine's College, UKMARK PAULY Researcher for the National Scientific Research Centre of France (CNRS) at the Institute for Computer Science in Toulouse (IRIT), FranceROBERT SUGDEN Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UKJOHN TIMMEL Evolutionary biologist who investigated human decision making and problem solving while earning his Ph.D. at Binghamton University, USAMATTHEW TODD Co-founder of Liizuka Software, UKCHRIS WALLACE Oxford University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, UKMICHAEL WEST Professor of Organisational Psychology, and the Research Director for Aston Business School, UKMICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UKJEREMY WYATT Director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Birmingham, UKDAVID SLOAN WILSON Evolutionary biologist who studies humans along with other species