Are Two More Trouble Than One?

I've mentioned before my interest in the mechanism that facilitate human cooperative working and group-cohesive action. So look away now if this is not something that grabs you. It concerns an experiment to see how people co-operated 'haptically' over a task.

many said they thought the other person interfered with them. However, despite the perceived difficulty of coordination, most pairs performed significantly faster than individuals doing the same task. Not only were pairs faster than individuals, most pairs quickly developed a cooperative strategy. The pairs "specialized" such that one participant primarily accelerated the crank when the target appeared, while the other brought it to rest accurately when the marker reached the target. Most participants were unaware that they had adopted a cooperative strategy.

This is task orientated non-verbal communication enabling co-ordinated action. Sounds like the kind of psychological mechanism that could be useful for building emergent trans-human corporate entities ... and that's my interest.
ScienceDaily: Helping Hands: Are Two More Trouble Than One?:
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