Ingham and colleagues (1974) asked participants to pull on a rope and found that participants pulled almost 20 percent harder wh
en they thought they were pulling alone than when they thought they were part of a group. This finding best illustrates:______. a. social loafing.
b. social dilemma.
c. group think.
d. social facilitation.
It is the concept that people are subjectable to apply less effort on a task if they are in a group compared to when they work alone. The idea of working in groups is typically seen as a way to improve the accomplishment of a task by pooling the skills and talents of the individuals in that group.
This question was the research conducted by Ingham et Al which gives more insight to the concept of "ringelmann effect".
The ringelmann effect was first proposed by Maximilien Ringelmann and the effect talks about or explains that when people undergo a particular work together they do not put so much effort as much as they will do when they are doing that same work alone. This is the case or Explanation in Psychology when we want to explain the concept of social loafing.
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