Social Loafing o Bystander effect

 They do not know

 Biologically ingrained in our minds
what to do if they are
that we can be a social loafer.
faced with an
 Reward circuits of the brain- makes
abnormal situation, so
us act to do social activities, doing
they unconsciously
against that will go against our
imitate the people
natural act that is to do social
around you.
activities
o Unconscious
 Phenomenon that is bugging a lot of
 Unconscious tendency to exert lesser
researchers.
effort into the group.
 When individuals exert less effort
 Different behavior as an individual
whenever there are people in a group
and as a member of the group.
are exerting the same effort as you
 They will be tempted to have a free
 The effort they exert are more
ride.
compared to when other people are
joined in doing the same task. Social conformity
 If there is no individual evaluation
o Peer pressure
against others, you are not going to
exert much effort. Lesser motivation o Affects how you think, who
to put an effort to do that project. you are and what you do.
 Contradictory, in unity there is a o Social learning
strength o How it easily affects how you
 Poor performance stems from poor act.
coordination- different timing o Unconscious and ingrained.
o Would lessen the impact We need to act the same with
 If many people will contribute, we will what we witness to the
not give the best effort we have for people.
the group since we know there is a
peon who’ll do it for us.
 Collective projects- if no one want to
have a low grade, they will contribute
 Can be unconscious- you are not
aware that you are being one, greater
tendency to let go of your effort and
let other member of our group take
the will.
 GROUPTHINK
o Subculture of Social loafing
o Circle of friends- the closer
you are to each other, the
more homogenous, the
greater it is for you to agree
on a certain suggestion.
 Social loafing is very difficult
o Cannot be easy to control