Social Influences on Behavior
... • Presence of others increases general level of arousal • Arousal increases tendency to perform behaviors that are most dominant (the ones we know best) – Improves performance for easy, familiar tasks – Performance may suffer for hard, unfamiliar tasks ...
... • Presence of others increases general level of arousal • Arousal increases tendency to perform behaviors that are most dominant (the ones we know best) – Improves performance for easy, familiar tasks – Performance may suffer for hard, unfamiliar tasks ...
2017 HRQ 14 1
... b. the mere exposure effect. c. the bystander effect. d. social facilitation. e. a situational attribution. ____ 11. Social loafing is MOST likely to occur among a. audience members who are asked to applaud after a speaker is introduced. b. factory workers paid on the basis of individual level of pr ...
... b. the mere exposure effect. c. the bystander effect. d. social facilitation. e. a situational attribution. ____ 11. Social loafing is MOST likely to occur among a. audience members who are asked to applaud after a speaker is introduced. b. factory workers paid on the basis of individual level of pr ...
Social Psych
... response to relationship experiences People married to dissimilar partners change their personalities more over the ...
... response to relationship experiences People married to dissimilar partners change their personalities more over the ...
Chapter 15: Social groups PowerPoint
... • The Lucifer effect - Zimbardo (2007) believes that many acts of cruelty can be explained by deindividuation ...
... • The Lucifer effect - Zimbardo (2007) believes that many acts of cruelty can be explained by deindividuation ...
Understanding ourselves
... • What happens when your actions are inconsistent with your beliefs? – Doomsday cults – Festinger’s boring tasks ...
... • What happens when your actions are inconsistent with your beliefs? – Doomsday cults – Festinger’s boring tasks ...
Social loafing
In the social psychology of groups, social loafing is the phenomenon of people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone. This is seen as one of the main reasons groups are sometimes less productive than the combined performance of their members working as individuals, but should be distinguished from the accidental coordination problems that groups sometimes experience.Social loafing can be explained by the ""free-rider"" theory and the resulting ""sucker effect"", which is an individual’s reduction in effort in order to avoid pulling the weight of a fellow group member.Research on social loafing began with rope pulling experiments by Ringelmann, who found that members of a group tended to exert less effort in pulling a rope than did individuals alone. In more recent research, studies involving modern technology, such as online and distributed groups, have also shown clear evidence of social loafing. Many of the causes of social loafing stem from an individual feeling that his or her effort will not matter to the group.