Decision responsibility, task responsibility, identifiability, and social loafing
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 1987 · 76 citations · 12 references
Behavioral Decision MakingMotivationAccountabilityDecision ResponsibilityIndividual Decision MakingAutonomySocial SciencesSocial Responsibility
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Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing.
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Identifiability as a deterrant to social loafing: Two cheering experiments.
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Effects of task difficulty and task uniqueness on social loafing.
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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
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