TY - JOUR A1 - Gockel, Christine A1 - Brauner, Elisabeth T1 - The benefits of stepping into others’ shoes: perspective-taking strengthens transactive memory T2 - Basic and Applied Social Psychology N2 - Perspective taking is an important requirement for effective communication. Teams working on knowledge-intensive tasks should benefit particularly. In a laboratory study, we examined whether perspective taking (vs. egocentrism) facilitated transactive memory when team members' knowledge was either different or similar. Perspective taking led teams to form more accurate transactive memory and agree more regarding each other's knowledge assessments. Corresponding effects were found when knowledge was similar. However, no interaction emerged. Our study shows that perspective taking is a cognitive state that can be induced with a short intervention and that can positively influence team-level outcomes such as transactive memory. KW - Transactive memory KW - Communication Y1 - 2014 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-srh/frontdoor/index/index/docId/475 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. VL - 35 IS - 2 SP - 222 EP - 230 ER -