Question
After being formulated by Max Ringelmann in 1913, this concept was "rediscovered" in a 1974 study by Ingham et al. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this phenomenon with a two-word name in which people lose efficiency when working together rather than alone, possibly due to loss of motivation or deindividuation. Like the related bystander effect, it is often attributed to diffusion of responsibility.
ANSWER: social loafing
[10h] Ringelmann coined his namesake effect after evaluating subjects engaging in social loafing while performing this physical action in a group. Ringelmann’s experiments involving this action were repeated by Ingham et al. with varied group size.
ANSWER: pulling a rope [accept equivalent answers like tugging on a rope; accept playing tug-of-war; prompt on pulling with “pulling what?”]
[10e] Unrelatedly, Ringelmann names a scientific scale for measuring the opacity of this substance. A bystander effect experiment by Darley and Latané studied how subjects in a group were less likely to react to this substance filling a room.
ANSWER: smoke
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