Tacit Coordination in Anticipation of Small Group Task Completion

This research was supported by Grant N00014-90-J-1790 from the Office of Naval Research awarded to the second author and a fellowship awarded to the first author from the National ScienceFoundation (DIR-9113599) to the Mershon Center Research Training Group on the Role of Cognition in Collective Political Decision Making at The Ohio State University. Portions of Study 1 were presented at the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, May, 1994, Chicago, IL. Portions of Study 2 were presented at the sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, May, 1995, Chicago, IL. We thank Sandy Vaughan and Erin Wilson for help in creating the research materials, Stacey Seiber for assisting with data collection and creating materials, Candace Ferrell, Amy Hallal, and Amanda Nilsson for long hours of data collection and coding, and Lauren Katz, Melissa Layman, and AlyssaPiljan for coding and data entry. Correspondenceand reprint requests shouldbe addressed to: Garold Stasser, Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056. E-mail : gs4apsyf=miamiu.acs.muohio.edu.      32, 129—152 (1996)  . 0006

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