{"pk":28445,"title":"Self-Organized Division of Cognitive Labor","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The division of labor phenomenon has been observed with re-spect to both manual and cognitive labor, but there is no clearunderstanding of the intra- and inter-individual mechanismsthat allow for its emergence, especially when there are multipledivisions possible and communication is limited. Situationsfitting this description include individuals in a group splittinga geographical region for resource harvesting without explicitnegotiation, or a couple tacitly negotiating the hour of the dayfor each to shower so that there is sufficient hot water. We stud-ied this phenomenon by means of an iterative two-person gamewhere multiple divisions are possible, but no explicit commu-nication is allowed. Our results suggest that there are a lim-ited number of biases toward divisions of labor, which serveas attractors in the dynamics of dyadic coordination. How-ever, unlike Schelling’s focal points, these biases do not attractplayers’ attention at the onset of the interaction, but are onlyrevealed and consolidated by the in-game dynamics of dyadicinteraction.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Group cognition; Divergent behavioral norms; Fo-cal points; Cooperation."}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zg3586c","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Edgar","middle_name":"","last_name":"Andrade-Lotero","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad del Rosario","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Goldstone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28445/galley/18316/download/"}]}