PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Tunxis Community College, Social Loafing, Cognitive Dissonance
23 Nov 2020
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Culture and cohesiveness people work in groups that are culturally diverse. Work teams in the business world may consist of individuals from around the globe. How concerned group members are about hurting group cohesiveness by engaging in heated debates and the effects of debates on group performance may also vary across culture. Roger nibler and karen harris studied five-person groups of strangers and friends in. The groups" task was to rank 15 items to be taken aboard a lifeboat from a ship that was about to sink. With the chinese groups and the groups of american strangers, these kinds of disagreements tended to be perceived as troubling and interfered with group performance. When we engage in activities in groups, we are in the presence of others. There are three important effects that the presence of others can have on individuals: social facilitation, social loafing, and deindividuation. Social psychologists have been fascinated by how the presence of others affects behaviour.
