Question

At a factory job, Samantha's output was measured at the end of each day by calculating the productivity of the team of workers she belonged to. As the team members were not held individually accountable, this allowed Samantha to exert less effort in her work. In this scenario, Samantha's behavior is a typical example of

the confirmation bias.

social facilitation.

social loafing.

group polarization.

Answer 1

In this scenario, Samantha's behavior is a typical example of social loafing. She reduced her performance as if her work is not considered separately, which made her feel like why to work more in a group as the group will be awarded atlast. So she her mind that others will compensate her efforts and that the work will be finished anyway. So she did lessen her efforts to finish the work and also it is accounted for individual performance as she is not going to suffer from this.