Take a Break? Your Success May Depend On It
I may have written about this before but a new study is saying that too much hard work may cause you to screw up your team. How so? Experts claim that taking breaks may improve not only your own performance but the chances of your team winning overall, says a new study by a team of USC computer scientists. Researchers from USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) crunched data from thousands of players in a popular online video game to analyze individual performance in teams over time. They also examined the impact of expertise on performance and other factors influencing player behavior, such as continuing to play versus ending the session, according to newswise.com. “We’re trying to understand what drives certain patterns of behavior in real social environments and online gaming allows us to study this question from different perspectives in a natural setting,” explains the study’s lead author Anna Sapienza, an ISI postdoctoral research associate. ...