The Ringelmann effect¶
Ingham, A. G., Levinger, Graves, & Peckham, V. (1974). The Ringelmann effect: Studies of group size and group performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 10(4), 371-384.
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Primes¶
- Responsibility Diffusion
- A three-person committee assigned to improve customer onboarding often accomplishes nothing compared to a single person with the same objective; each believes the others are handling it, so all under-invest, replicating the productivity-loss pattern Ingham, Levinger, Graves, and Peckham (1974) documented when revisiting the Ringelmann rope-pulling paradigm with experimental controls.
This sourceReplicates Ringelmann's rope-pulling experiments under controlled conditions, isolating motivation loss (not coordination loss) as the source of declining per-person output as group size grows.
- A three-person committee assigned to improve customer onboarding often accomplishes nothing compared to a single person with the same objective; each believes the others are handling it, so all under-invest, replicating the productivity-loss pattern Ingham, Levinger, Graves, and Peckham (1974) documented when revisiting the Ringelmann rope-pulling paradigm with experimental controls.
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