Participants

Completed study = 274
Failed att’n checks = 5
Final N = 269

M age = 36.3
Males = 153
Females = 114

Remote Status:
Remote: 130
In Person: 113
Mix: 26

Vignettes

You and your coworkers are at a meeting with management to discuss proposed changes to your department. It’s the end of the day on Friday, and you’re more than ready to head home.
Ten minutes before the presentation is about to end, however, one of your coworkers who has a tendency to be nit-picky begins to ask for an endless number of clarifications on the changes.
As the meeting drags on, you can’t help but look over to share a glance with the coworker who you always sit next to…

Shared Glances: …and your eyes meet.

Non-Shared Glances: …but your eyes don’t meet.

Control: …but you remember that they are not in the office today.

Open-ended

In this situation, how do you feel towards the coworker you always sit next to?

In this situation, how do you feel towards the coworker asking clarification questions?

Shared Reality During Glance

In this moment, how much do you feel like you and the coworker you always sit next to have the same thoughts and feelings about the situation?

M = 5.22, SD = 1.63

  srt
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 5.82 5.50 – 6.14 <0.001
Non-Shared -1.19 -1.64 – -0.74 <0.001
Observations 178
R2 / adjusted R2 0.134 / 0.129


IOS

Please choose the picture that best describes how you feel towards the coworker that you always sit next to in this moment.

  ios
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.66 4.32 – 5.01 <0.001
Non-Shared -1.29 -1.78 – -0.80 <0.001
Control -0.96 -1.44 – -0.47 <0.001
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.099 / 0.092


Naive realism

In this moment, [my coworker and] I .. [are] am viewing things in an objective way//see things as they really are
(joint naive realism in shared/nonshared conditions; solo naive realism in control)

  naive.real.tot
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.53 4.27 – 4.79 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.21 -0.58 – 0.15 0.256
Control -0.03 -0.41 – 0.34 0.859
Observations 263
R2 / adjusted R2 0.006 / -0.002


Annoyed

How annoyed do you feel at the coworker who is asking for the clarifications?

  annoy
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 5.60 5.33 – 5.86 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.10 -0.47 – 0.27 0.594
Control -0.11 -0.48 – 0.26 0.553
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.002 / -0.006


Interrupt

How likely would you be to interrupt this coworker’s questions?

  interrupt
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 2.83 2.47 – 3.19 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.22 -0.73 – 0.28 0.387
Control 0.12 -0.38 – 0.63 0.629
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.007 / -0.000


Emotions


Emotion Types Communicated during Glance
Please rate the extent to which you generally feel each of the following emotions in this situation.

Closeness

Take a moment to imagine the kind of relationship you have with the coworker you always sit next to in this hypothetical situation.

Overall, how emotionally close would you be to the coworker you always sit next to?

  close
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.56 4.32 – 4.81 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.37 -0.72 – -0.03 0.036
Control 0.37 0.03 – 0.72 0.034
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.063 / 0.056


SR-G

We frequently think of things at the exact same time, etc

  srg
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.30 4.06 – 4.55 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.30 -0.65 – 0.05 0.092
Control 0.32 -0.03 – 0.67 0.073
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.044 / 0.037


Solidarity with Colleague

I feel a sense of “brotherhood” or “sisterhood” with this coworker.

  solidarity.col
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.68 4.43 – 4.92 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.19 -0.53 – 0.16 0.288
Control 0.10 -0.24 – 0.44 0.569
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.010 / 0.003


Refresh Manip

Next, please read through the situation again to refresh your memory. Really place yourself in the situation… […]

Please answer the following questions about this hypothetical job situation.

Eager

How eager would you be to come to work on Monday?

  eager
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 3.01 2.72 – 3.30 <0.001
Non-Shared 0.49 0.08 – 0.91 0.020
Control 0.15 -0.26 – 0.57 0.465
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.021 / 0.014


OCB

How likely would you be to exhibit the following behaviors at this hypothetical organization? Help someone out if they fall behind in their work. // Encourage other crew members when they are down.

  ocb
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 5.56 5.35 – 5.77 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.41 -0.70 – -0.11 0.007
Control -0.48 -0.78 – -0.19 0.001
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.043 / 0.036


Solidarity Group

  solidarity.grp
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.70 4.48 – 4.92 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.34 -0.65 – -0.03 0.034
Control -0.11 -0.42 – 0.20 0.483
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.017 / 0.010


Commitment to Org

  commit
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 3.95 3.68 – 4.22 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.09 -0.46 – 0.29 0.655
Control -0.03 -0.41 – 0.34 0.868
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.001 / -0.007


Satisfaction Org

  sat
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.41 4.12 – 4.71 <0.001
Non-Shared 0.01 -0.41 – 0.43 0.958
Control -0.20 -0.61 – 0.22 0.350
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.005 / -0.003


Authenticity

  auth
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 3.84 3.54 – 4.14 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.08 -0.50 – 0.35 0.718
Control -0.04 -0.46 – 0.39 0.865
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.000 / -0.007


Meaning

  meaning
Predictors Estimates CI p
(Intercept) 4.55 4.21 – 4.88 <0.001
Non-Shared -0.27 -0.75 – 0.20 0.257
Control -0.18 -0.65 – 0.28 0.442
Observations 269
R2 / adjusted R2 0.005 / -0.002


Open-ended comments relevant to ease of responding

positive:
- The scenario is very vivid to me. This has happened at every one of my jobs.
- I can completely relate to this situation!
- I feel like I could see this exact scenario happening at my work so it was easy to think about actual coworkers of mine and how I feel about them.
- I can relate to this because I have one coworker who almost always asks stupid questions at the end of staff meetings, making them longer than they should be.

negative:
- It’s very difficult to answer questions about my personal relationship with a hypothetical person about whom the only thing I know is: They often sit next to me at meetings
- It was hard to determine the rest of my feelings on that job based on a quick snapshot
- It was hard to think of it as a hypothetical company when I was thinking of my coworkers.
- It’s kind of hard to judge this broad range of thoughts about a general atmosphere at work when the only information I’m given is a coworker I sit by is not there and there is a mildly annoying meeting slightly inconveniencing me, hence most of my answers being “in the middle.”
- Not enough context in the description to answer most of the questions thoughtfully. answer to almost everything in my head was, “it depends”
- I found it difficult to gauge my feelings about the job only knowing of one experience and not enough about the job itself.
- very difficult to answer the questions because no information about the job or organization were given