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This research investigates the effects of negative social cues on worker quantitative task performance, internal work motivation, and job satisfaction. Negative social cues may create an effect similar to a class of social dilemma phenomena in small groups known as the "sucker effect." The sucker effect was originally identified as a particular ...
- Mel E. Schnake
- 1991
The sucker effect stems from the perception that others in a group are withholding effort; individuals who hold this perception then withhold effort themselves to avoid being played for a "sucker." The effects of such negative social cues were tested on worker quantitative task performance, internal work motivation, and job satisfaction using 140 undergraduates. Ss agreed to participate in a ...
- The Influence of Group Psychology
- How Group Psychology Affects Productivity
- Group Psychology Changes Decision-Making
- Creativity
- The Power of Groups
The seeds of group behaviour are sown even before its members meet. Just knowing that some people are on ‘our side’ and others are not begins to shape our social identity. Group affiliation soon grows even stronger, though, bending our behaviour further, if we undergo an initiation rite. A rite as simple as reading rude words out loud can produce a...
The amount and quality of the work we do (or don’t do) is regulated by the group. Sometimes groups have a social facilitationeffect on performance, spurring us on to greater achievements. This is most likely to happen when our own contribution is obvious and when we are judged in comparison to others. At other times groups encourage social loafing,...
One of the most important functions of modern groups is decision-making. The fates of our families, our corporations, even our nations, hang on our collective ability to make good decisions. Unfortunately psychologists have found that groups suffer all kinds of biases and glitches that lead to poor choices. Happily, though, experiments have reveale...
Creativity fosters economic growth, artistic innovation and technical breakthroughs, on all of which our society thrives. Groups, though, if badly organised, can stifle lofty ambitions. Psychologists have long known that the practice of ‘brainstorming‘ is a sure road to fewer new ideas and less innovation than that produced when we work individuall...
Groups may impose unwritten norms on us, warp or exaggerate our decisions, even dull our creativity, but these effects are often the flip side of forces that make groups strong. Despite the modern trend towards fractured neighbourhoods, families and workplaces, humanity cannot survive without banding together. We draw our psychological identity and...
3 days ago · The finding that some individuals will reduce their individual effort when working on a group task because they fear becoming, or being seen as, a ‘sucker’, i.e. someone who contributes more to the group than others but receives the same reward. See also collective effort model; Ringelmann effect; social loafing. From: sucker effect in A ...
Jun 15, 2021 · The sucker effect is a term Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychologist use to describe when a person on a team lowers the amount of effort they are putting in down to the level of the other team members (Levy, P. 2017). It can feel like you are being taken advantage of if you are working harder than others and not receiving the credit for it.
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Two group motivation loss effects demonstrated in previous research, the social-loafing effect and the free-rider effect, are shown to follow from social dilemma theories. An experiment with 75 undergraduates was performed to empirically demonstrate a 3rd motivation loss effect, termed the "sucker" effect.
However, although the "sucker effect" hypothesis was not supported with the factorial analysis, more specific analyses revealed the pattern predicted by this hypothesis. Because people may find it easier to gener alize about a group as opposed to an individual, this pattern is likely to be enhanced with larger sized groups. Future research ...
