Gaechter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We … operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre …-registered replication, reveals strong positive associations between group cohesion and performance assessed in weak-link coordination games …