Individual Contributions to a Collective Effort
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 15 (2) , 141-149
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167289152001
Abstract
Subjects were asked to generate uses for an object either alone or in a group. Half were offered a modest incentive for a good (individual or group)performance, and half were not. As predicted, evidence of social loafing was found when subjects worked as part of a group, but only when the incentive was not provided.Keywords
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