Group performance in a manual dexterity task

Abstract

65 pairs of male university students were given 6 individual trials on the Purdue Pegboard Assembly Task, and 6 trials on the same task working as a cooperating pair. Results indicated that less than half of the group performance variance could be predicted from a knowledge of the individual performances. The implications of this result for industrial situations are briefly discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)