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The Effects Of Publicly Displayed Individual Feedback On Social Loafing, Nelson R. Eikenhout
The Effects Of Publicly Displayed Individual Feedback On Social Loafing, Nelson R. Eikenhout
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The decrease in individual performance output that occurs when individuals perform a task in groups in which the output is pooled has been labelled social loafing. The purpose of this study was to determine what would happen to the quantity and quality of individual performance in groups when public, individual feedback was present and absent.
An ABCBC experimental design was used. Four subjects worked individually, together in a group without feedback, and in the group in the presence of feedback making widgets out of plastic pop beads. The number of widgets made and the number of widgets made correctly were …