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While the merits of collegiality are often invoked, it is not a perfectly clear term.Collegiality has been defined as "a form of social organization based on shared and equal participation of all its members.It contrasts with a hierarchical, pyramidal structure... ."By this definition, it is merely an organizational form, such as the Supreme Court, but takes no note of interactions among the members of that structure.The more common understanding, though, considers the relationships among the members of the collegial body.Villanova University, for example, has declared: "Collegiality entails mutual understanding, respect, and trust among all these groups, based upon their shared sense that it is in the common interest of all to cooperate in promoting the general welfare and the mission of the academic community." 2 In this vision, collegiality involves people cooperating in the interest of some greater group interest, rather than pursuing their self-interest.Academics typically put great importance on this sense of collegiality.In hiring decisions, we commonly evaluate whether an individual would make "a good colleague."In research, collaboration is common in order to take advantage of varied strengths and diverse insights.All this presumes that group production of a good is preferable to atomistic individual production.At least one study has con-
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