A growing body of the literature shows the influence of cognitive styles, which capture the ways individuals share, encode, and process information, and their implications for collaboration. We build on this literature to investigate the special contributions of individuals with cognitive style versatility, or facility in more than one cognitive style, for improving teams' collaborative performance. In two studies, including a total of 452 participants in 132 teams, we observe that the presence of cognitively versatile individuals has direct (Study 1) and indirect (Study 2) effects on team performance. In an exploratory analysis, we observe that the presence of cognitively versatile individuals facilitates the task and social processes necessary for effective team information processing, specifically reducing team process conflict and task conflict and enhancing team social integration, with social integration mediating the relationship between cognitive style versatility and team performance. Importantly, these effects remain even when accounting for team cognitive ability and other measures of team surface- and deep-level diversity. Our findings contribute to the emerging literature on team composition and its implications for collaboration and teamwork. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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协作工作的认知风格多样性的好处。

越来越多的文献表明认知风格的影响，认知风格捕捉个人共享、编码和处理信息的方式，以及它们对协作的影响。我们以这些文献为基础，调查具有认知风格多样性或多种认知风格的个人对提高团队协作绩效的特殊贡献。在两项研究中，共包括 132 个团队的 452 名参与者，我们观察到认知多才多艺的人的存在对团队绩效有直接（研究 1）和间接（研究 2）影响。在探索性分析中，我们观察到认知多才多艺的人的存在促进了有效团队信息处理所必需的任务和社会过程，特别是减少团队过程冲突和任务冲突，增强团队社会融合，社会融合在认知风格多样性和团队绩效之间起到中介作用。重要的是，即使在考虑团队认知能力和其他衡量团队表层和深层多样性的指标时，这些影响仍然存在。我们的研究结果为关于团队组成及其对协作和团队合作的影响的新兴文献做出了贡献。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。我们的研究结果为关于团队组成及其对协作和团队合作的影响的新兴文献做出了贡献。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。我们的研究结果为关于团队组成及其对协作和团队合作的影响的新兴文献做出了贡献。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。