Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about groupthink and social loafing.
Hints
- The remedies all work by attacking the same thing: the suppression of dissent or the anonymity of effort.
- Two options are false: one merges two opposite phenomena, and one prescribes the very conditions that cause the problem.
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- B. Social loafing is reduced when each person's individual contribution can be identified.
- C. Deliberately seeking views from outside the group counteracts groupthink.
- E. Appointing a devil's advocate is a standard remedy for groupthink.
Why
Devil's advocacy and outside views break the illusion of unanimity, and identifiability removes the cover that loafing needs. The false pair is instructive: facilitation (being watched) and loafing (being pooled) push effort in opposite directions, and cohesion plus pressure to agree is the recipe for groupthink, not the guard against it.
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