SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Social Facilitation, Deindividuation
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Social facilitation: the argument that group dynamics can facilitate or hinder performance when it comes to individual performances without being competitive or regarded. Social loafing: the tendency for people to exert less when their efforts are evaluated as a pool working towards a common gal. size of the group impacts it, the harshness of the task. Ex: group work, one takes more responsibilities and the other depending for you to do all, the idea that if (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t trust others i(cid:374) a group (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) the grade (cid:449)ill be if others are bad. Deindividuation: when loss of awareness and evaluation apprehension among individuals results in groups situation that foster responsiveness to group norms. Not seeing yourself as an individual of the group, you tend to get loss in the shuffle, you are less concerned on what people think of you. There is not distinction between you and your group.
