The Influence of States and Traits on Individual and Group Performance Variability.
Abstract
The goal for this workshop is extraordinarily ambitious; to develop a comprehensive set of theories that account for and predict individual and group variability. To frame the discussion, we begin by considering human performance at any point in time as dependent on multiple features that operate over different time scales. Some features change over months, years, or are even fixed, for example. genetics, the microbiome, or culture, while other features change over hours and days, e.g. social encounters, sleep deprivation, and stress. Here we will use the word trait for the longer time scale features and state for the shorter. A great deal of empirical and theoretical work has been done on individual traits and states and their impact and performance on particular tasks. What has not been attempted is a way to combine and weight states and traits to make predictions about upcoming performance. Developing an understanding/framework that is able to accurately predict a significant degree of the variability in naturally behaving individuals and groups would have profound and far-reaching implications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jun 25, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1610193
Entities
People
- John Krakauer
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Johns Hopkins University
- United States Army