How do people perceive team workload and stress? Is team workload and stress simply judged to be the sum of the constituent parts, or do people perceive interactive effects between task demands and the team member’s respective skill levels? The present study explored whether people have an intuitive theory of team stress and workload that they use to predict team’s stress and workload in performance contexts. Participants were trained for five weeks on a UAV team task, and then were asked to rate eight hypothetical scenarios for team stress and workload. The present results indicate the participants basically perceived team workload and stress as the sum of the constituent parts in regards to team members.
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