Facilitating Multi-Perspective-Taking in Adults: A Field Study

Interpersonal collaboration is critical to solving complex problems and constitutes one of the most challenging aspects of effective teamwork. A significant amount of tension that leads to unproductive divisions can be traced back to either-or thinking fallacy. This research explores what it takes to effectively facilitate multi-perspective-taking in adults in order to address this challenge. The results of the field study make a number of contributions: (i) they highlight the complexity and opportunity involved in facilitating multi-perspective-taking in adults; (ii) they offer structured guidelines for how to approach such a training; and (iii) they exhibit initial evidence that reinforces the possibility and value of expanding the multi-perspective-taking capacity of adults.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

System Design and Management Program.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Georgiadis, Mari

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Orlikowski, Wanda

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151233

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/151233