Bringing social interaction at the core of organizational neuroscience

Frontiers in Psychology

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Sarah Boukarras¹  Donato Ferri¹  Althea Frisanco²  Maria Luisa Farnese¹  Chiara Consiglio¹  Ilario Alvino⁵  Francesco Bianchi¹  Andrea D’Acunto³  Laura Borgogni¹  Salvatore Maria Aglioti² 

[1] Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome;Santa Lucia Foundation;EY;Sapienza University of Rome and CLN2S@Sapienza, Italian Institute of Technology;Department of Legal Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome

关键词: organizational neuroscience;    interpersonal psychophysiology;    virtual reality;    social interaction;    Leadership;    second person neuroscience;    workplace behavior;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1034454

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Organizations are composed of individuals working together for achieving specific goals, and interpersonal dynamics do exert a strong influence on workplace behaviour. Nevertheless, the dual and multiple perspective of interactions has been scarcely considered by Organizational Neuroscience (ON), the emerging field of study that aims at incorporating findings from cognitive and brain sciences into the investigation of organizational behaviour. This perspective article aims to highlight the potential benefits of adopting experimental settings involving two or more participants (the so-called “second person” approach) for studying the neural bases of organizational behaviour. Specifically, we stress the idea that moving beyond the individual perspective and capturing the dynamical relationships occurring within dyads or groups (e.g., leaders and followers, salespersons and clients, teams) might bring novel insights into the rising field of ON. In addition, designing research paradigms that reliably recreate real work and life situations might increase the generalizability and ecological validity of its results. We start with a brief overview of the current state of ON research and we continue by describing the second-person approach to social neuroscience. In the last paragraph, we try and outline how this approach could be extended to ON. To this end, we focus on leadership, group processes and emotional contagion as extant examples of neuroscience studies of potential importance for ON research.

【 授权许可】

CC BY