Social Loafing Essay

Social Loafing- I think that social loafing happens a lot in high school and college in group projects. Maybe not as much in college as in high school because people know that they need to help achieve a grade or goal. I have seen, when I was in high school, that others did not want to help get the goal that everyone was working towards. I especially see this in the boys in high school I think that most boys think they can just slide by without doing as much work when in a group setting. I personally did not let this happen in my group projects but I know girls that did because they were interested in the boy or wanted to make a good impression.

Groupthink- Groupthink to me can be a good thing if working on a sole purpose to something simple. Things like a group project for school or solutions to a simple problem can use groupthink to come to a easy solution. But if trying to solve big solutions like everyday workers and a CEO solving company problems groupthink will not work. I think that to avoid groupthink everyone would need to separate, think, present, and re-organize to achieve the best result.

I remember being in track my freshmen year of high school. The only time I was talked into doing track. I am not a runner. I somehow got convinced by the coach to run in the 800 meter race. I thought I would be fine and in practice I was doing well, slowly getting better and faster as time went by. When the first meet came up I came in last in my race. I though having others to race would have increased my performance but it was the opposite. I guess having new runners around me I did not do my best on this simple task I had been preforming for