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Partner familiarity

Partner familiarity has been studied in 2 papers since 2018: 1 trial and 1 observational study in people. The newest paper, Feb 22, 2022: “Learning with friends and strangers: partner familiarity does not improve collaborative learning performance in younger and older adults”.

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2 papers study it2 findingsUpdated

“Familiarity had no effect on performance.”
Learning with friends and strangers: partner familiarity does not improve collaborative learning performance in younger and older adultsMemory (Hove, England)2022doi:10.1080/09658211.2022.2041038

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Labs are independent when their papers share no last author and no institution.

  • 2 independent labs in 1 country
  • Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
  • Human trial1
  • Humans1

What did studies of Partner familiarity find?

2

Studies of Partner familiarity measured 2 outcomes; the most studied are collaborative learning performance (1 study) and collaborative referencing task performance (1).

Collaborative learning performance

no changein humans1

1 study

  1. Partner familiarity has no effect on collaborative learning performance in humans.

    “Familiarity had no effect on performance.”

    Human trialn = 24

    Learning with friends and strangers: partner familiarity does not improve collaborative learning performance in younger and older adults

    Memory (Hove, England)

Collaborative referencing task performance

no changein humans1

1 study

  1. Partner familiarity has no effect on collaborative referencing task performance in humans.

    “Familiarity had no effect on performance”

    Human trialfamiliar versus unfamiliar partners

    Learning with friends and strangers: does familiarity improve performance for younger and older adults on a collaborative referencing task?

    Preprint

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