social facilitation vs social loafing
Social Facilitation Vs. Social Loafing
Social facilitation and social loafing are two closely related terms. Both are based on the influence of others' presence in our performance, and both are a part of group behavior. We will tell you how our different behavior is categorized into these two terms by giving you a comparison between social facilitation and social loafing.
- Social facilitation is when others' presence facilitates or affects our performance, in a good or bad way.
- Social loafing is when in a group of hardworking people, some find a way to sit back and do nothing, thinking it wouldn't make much difference if they didn't contribute.
- How to solve this complex problem?
- What will happen if I'm unable to solve it? What impression would it make on the teachers and the students? What if they laugh at my stupidity?
- People think their contributions might not really matter in a group of brilliantly working people, and so they either tend to pretend they work, or just don't get into anything, quietly taking credits for group performances. But they forget that a group was made to give better performances with a mix of everybody's efforts.
- People just take advantage of others in a group, not helping them out with work, instead leisurely spend their time on works of their interest.