endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely … explanation for this surprising result. -- role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner's curse …

We compare behavior in modified dictator games with and without role uncertainty. Subjects choose between a selfish …). While costly surplus creating actions are most frequent under role uncertainty (64%), selfish actions become most frequent … without role uncertainty (69%). Also, the frequency of surplus destroying choices is negligible with role uncertainty (1%) but …

endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely … explanation for this surprising result. -- role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner's curse …