SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Public Broadcasting

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOP 3004
• Professor: Sheppard James

Document Summary

Pulling rope, generating uses for objects, group projects. Uses generated for object declined when people thought they were doing so as part of a group. Low personal involvement ex. students told to write about comprehensive exams being o implemented. Write opinions more strongly when exams personally affect their university vs another. Why might people loaf in group project with common grade for all. Perceive that your efforts are dispensable (whether or. Perception that effort is unrelated to performance not i work hard we will get a good grade) our group will still do poorly. Perceived futility of efforts (no matter how hard i try, Perception that performance is unrelated to outcome unpredictable, capricious) Material costs; amount of effort time or money. Increase probability that a good performance will be o o. Defined: loss of self awareness and evaluation apprenhension. Conditions leading to deindividuation: anonymity, response diffusion, altered state. Anonymity response diff. , altered state>deindivudauatiion>non normative behavior ex.