Social+Loafing!

=SOCIAL LOAFING=

**SOCIAL LOAFING**- “is the tendency for people to perform worse on simple tasks, yet better at complex tasks when they are in the presence of others.” (changingminds.org)  **RESEARCH**: A psychologist named Max Ringelmann, conducted an experiment in which he had people pull on ropes. He had people pull on ropes individually and in groups and measured how hard they pulled. He observed that people pulled less when in groups. Professor Bibb Latané conducted a similar experiment, instead of pulling ropes, he had people cheer. He gathered that when people are in larger groups, they cheer less loud than in CAUSE: group work is anonymous, expected, and no standards  **NHS**: Group work. When students are assigned group projects, work is typically divided equally among the group members.Each member is only doing part of whole project, therefore, they are immediately doing less work. Students tend to rely on other students to carry out more work  **POP CULTURE**: Social loafing and //Survivor:// In the popular reality show, //Survivor// , team members must find a balance between individual competitiveness and teamwork. Due to the tendency of social loafing, is it difficult to find this balance. In season 10, a contestant named Willard Smith was accused, by his teammates, of not pulling his weight. So, his teammates forced him to watch the fire at night. Instead of tending to the fire, he slept on the hammock.

[|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIMSC-RWvF8__]  (start at 5:35)
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