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What is social loafing?

What is social loafing? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) The tendency for members of a group to make less effort together than they might make individually.
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The variables of individual identifiability and group membership both had an effect upon both the social loafing and deindividuation measures.
Even if you think you're a conscientious, hardworking type, you may still be prone to social loafing, the tendency for people to put in less effort when working on a task with a group than they would do if alone.
The evaluation results also revealed that social loafing widely existed, but students tended not to report it or hold the loafers accountable.
The players are apparently suffering from the well-known social loafing syndrome, whereby in a collective enterprise each individual in the group underperforms relative to individual potential.

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