Social loafing

What it is

People exert less effort in a group than alone when their contribution is not individually visible.

Related

• Conformity bias
  Both change behaviour toward what the group does: matching it and putting in less.
• Groupthink bias
  Both are group effects that lower the quality of group work.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#33: Social loafing

References

• Wikipedia: Social loafing en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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