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Individual Contributions to a Collective Effort

James A. Shepperd, Rex A. Wright

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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.

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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.

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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.

Key concepts: Social loafing, Psychology, Incentive, Social psychology, Group (periodic table), Object (grammar), Microeconomics, Economics

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