Research Summary
Research Summary
Thin Slices of Teams with Professor Jeff Polzer, Patricia Satterstrom, and Lisa Kwan
Description
How do people evaluate team effectiveness from short observations of interactions among team members? What are the cues people take in in such narrow windows of experience? What contributes to the accuracy of evaluations based on thin slices of observations? Building on Ambady & Rosenthal's (1992) Thin Slices research, we apply and extend the Thin Slices research to the team contexts. We have created and validated a set of videos each of which has a team of four interacting and collaborating on different tasks. We aim to use the video stimuli to answer these questions by exploring if and how, for instance, team diversity, team members' interactions, and perceived collaborative potentials account for the accuracy in thin slices judgment of teams.