Research case study
Polarization at Workplace
What happens when political disagreement enters teams?
- Political behaviour
- Team interaction
- Real-time experiment
Research question
What happens when political disagreement enters teams?
The project asks how awareness of political distance changes communication and cooperation when people must work with a partner. A real-time task makes information exchange and joint performance directly observable.
Design
Cooperation when neither partner has the full answer
Paired participants work on a joint real-effort task in which each person sees only part of the information needed to succeed. The design can vary whether political disagreement is revealed, concealed, requested, or blocked, while the platform records communication and performance.
Participants are matched for a synchronous collaboration task.
Each partner receives a different part of the material needed to solve the task.
The interface captures information sharing, timing, and coordination.
Outcomes connect communication choices to accuracy and team efficiency.
Workflow evidence
A synchronous research workflow
The diagram shows the research logic without exposing a live study or participant data.
Contribution
Interaction made measurable
I designed and built the interactive platform and workflow. The implementation coordinates matching, timing, divided information, message exchange, and structured logging for reproducible multi-user experiments.
Current status
A pilot and partial programme
The design and infrastructure have been piloted and presented as an ongoing research programme. This page does not present the project as a completed paper or report final effects.
Outputs