PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Loafing, Group Polarization, Confirmation Bias
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Individuals productivity often does decline in larger groups. Two factors appear to contribute to reduced individual productivity in larger groups. One factor is reduced efficiency resulting from the loss of coordination among workers efforts. The second factor contributing to low productivity in groups involves effort rather than efficiency. Social loafing is a reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves. Social loafing and loss of coordination combines to reduce productivity as group size increases. As group size increases the responsibility for getting a job done is divided among more people, and many group members ease up because their individual contribution is less recognizable. When people join together in groups, they often have to make decisions about what the group will do and how it will use its resources. Common sense suggests that groups will work out compromises that cancel out members extreme views.
