Effects of task difficulty and task uniqueness on social loafing.

Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing.

Bibb Latané, Kipling D. Williams, Stephen G. Harkins · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1979 · 2.2K citations

Group Phenomenon, Social Theory, Social Psychology +22

Identifiability as a deterrant to social loafing: Two cheering experiments.

Kipling D. Williams, Stephen G. Harkins, Bibb Latané · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1981 · 532 citations

Social Identity, Behavioral Sciences, Social Bias +12

The Ringelmann effect: Studies of group size and group performance

Alan G. Ingham, George Levinger, J. Graves et al. · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1974 · 466 citations

Small Group Research, Behavioral Sciences, Performance Studies +10

The effects of group diffusion of cognitive effort on attitudes: An information-processing view.

Richard E. Petty, Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1980 · 251 citations

Group Communication, Cognitive Science, Group Phenomenon +12

Drive theory of social facilitation: Twelve years of theory and research.

Russell G. Geen, James J. Gange · Psychological Bulletin · 1977 · 223 citations

Drive Theory, Social Action, Behavioral Sciences +14