Question

When Jerry thought he was the only person who was assigned the job of contacting alumni for a 15-year reunion, he spent several hours on the phone each evening trying to reach members of his graduating class. When he learned that eight other people were also working on contacting the alumni he spent only 30 minutes each night making phone calls. The process that would best explain the decrease in Jerry's effort when he learned that he was working as part of a larger group, is
A. social interference
B. social loafing
C. the bystander effect
D. social dissonance

Answer 1

Answer:

The process that explains the behavioral change in Jerry is called a. Social interference.

Explanation:

Social interference is a concept derived from sociology and psychology. It explains that people are predisposed to perform less effort in a task if they work in a team instead of working alone. This means proposes that tasks under team circumstances seek to darg the skills of the group instead of pushing an individual's effort to achieve it, so it gives them the chance to not push themselves and work under forced labor.