Team reasoning: Solving the puzzle of coordination

Andrew M. Colman, Natalie Gold
2017 Psychonomic Bulletin & Review  
In many everyday activities, individuals have a common interest in coordinating their actions. Orthodox game theory cannot explain such intuitively obvious forms of coordination as the selection of an outcome that is best for all in a common-interest game. Theories of team reasoning provide a convincing solution by proposing that people are sometimes motivated to maximize the collective payoff of a group and that they adopt a distinctive mode of reasoning from preferences to decisions. This
more » ... offers a compelling explanation of cooperation in social dilemmas. A review of team reasoning and related theories suggests how team reasoning could be incorporated into psychological theories of group identification and social value orientation theory to provide a deeper understanding of these phenomena.
doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1399-0 pmid:29101730 fatcat:kromk4knlfcf3oh3nbqhilishy