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Social Facilitation & Social Loafing
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Social Facilitation & Social Loafing
The presence of others influences our behaviours and actions
Social facilitation: the tendency to perform better on tasks that are either easy or well-rehearsed, or worse on difficult or new tasks, due to increased arousal when there is audience
- Example: performing a masterful rendition of a song you've been practicing for months at a piano recital
Social loafing: the tendency for people to put in less effort into a task when they are working in a group than they would if working alone
- Example: members of a group project all producing lower-quality work than if it had been an individual project
- One way to prevent it? Have individual performance evaluations for each group member