Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Social Loafing, Fishing Reel, Deindividuation
17 Dec 2015
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It turned out that in subsequent studies, participants in some studies did better when an audience was present, and participants in other studies did better alone. In a study conducted at the university of california (1999), participants were presented with two-digit numbers on a computer screen (25, 97, Social loafing: goofing off when others can do the work. Social loafing: the reduction of effort that people often exhibit when. Assumed to involve relaxation or reduced motivation (caused by working in a group where individual contributions are unidentifiable believing that one"s personal contribution is unidentifiable) One necessary component for social loafing is individual anonymity: if was cheering cheering people believe that their own performance within the group will be identifiable, social loafing disappears. More social loafing might also be expected in individualistic cultures such as canada than in collectivistic cultures such as china.
