PSYC 023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Pulling Power, Psych, Butter Knife
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Hypothesized mechanisms: coordination loss when trying to do something as a group, sometimes you are less coordinated than when you are alone, loss of motivation people put in less effort because others will pick up their slack. He concluded that it was coordination loss rather than motivation loss. Iv: makeup of tug-a-war team: one participant, one participant + confederates (who are not pulling, several participants (a group of 2-8 people) Diffusion of evaluation: when there is no way to track the individual performance, people will loaf. **so to reduce loafing, we need to make people feel watched. Sex: men are more likely to loaf. Group make-up: co-ed group + attractive women less loafing, group of friends less loafing. Importance of task: more important task less loafing, less important task more loafing. Culture: collectivists don"t loaf when they see others not doing well, they help more, individualists are loafers. Related to the importance of the task.
