PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Social Facilitation
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A big lecture class); they feel less responsible for their actions: lynch mobs are an example of when someone who would not normally hurt someone individually now does, kitty genovese (neighbors didn"t do anything) Diffusion of responsibility - when there is a group each person feels less responsible for doing something look at flow chart. Social facilitation- better performance on individual projects by working as a group (ex. Doing better on a test when you study in a group) Social loafing- diminished effort: depends on size of group and nature of task (too many people - people don"t want to bother to do well) Group decisions: generally solve problems better in groups than alone, but sometimes group decisions are faulty. Groupthink- faulty decision making that happens in groups. Cohesiveness: groupthink worse (faulty decision making) in cohesive (people tend to agree with each other)
