PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 7: Group Influence: Social Loafing, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
2 May 2019
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When two or more people interact together on an occasion. When people are around us, it enhances our performance for easy tasks but fuck us over for hard tasks. Being in a crowd has the same effects on performance. We are aroused by others in presence because we worry about what people think about us but it is also distracting. The presence of other people are arousing could be an evolutionary basis from which developed in the animal kingdom. When people work in through a group task where individual performance is not calculated, people exert less effort than they would individually: ex. Become lazy because you realize that there"s a lot of people that are trying to accomplish the same thing as you. But when the task is hard, the group is cohesive, and committed to the beliefs of a group there is less social loafing: ex.
