Social Loafing Bibliography

An abbreviated bibliography on social loafing, for those few who might be interested. Karau and Willams' meta-study has a very long bib. up to its publication, but this shorter list hits some of the oldies and some of the goodies:

Charbonnier, Emmanuelle, Pascal Huguet, Markus Brauer, and Jean-Marc Monteil. 1998. "Social Loafing and Self-Beliefs: People's Collective Effort Depends on the Extent to Which They Distinguish Themselves as Better Than Others." Social Behavior and Personality 26:329-340.

Harkins, S., and Kate Szymanski. 1989. "Social Loafing and Group Evaluation." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 56:934-941.

Harkins, Stephen G. 1987. "Social Loafing and Social Facilitation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 23:1-18.

Harkins, Stephen G., and Jeffrey M. Jackson. 1985. "The Role of Evaluation in Eliminating Social Loafing." Pers Soc Psychol Bull 11:457-465.

Harkins, Stephen G., and Richard E. Petty. 1982. "Effects of Task Difficulty and Task Uniqueness on Social Loafing." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43:1214-1229.

Harkins, Stephen G., and Kate Szymanski. 1988. "Social loafing and self-evaluation with an objective standard." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 24:354-365.

Karau, S. J., and K. D Williams. 1993. "Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 65:681-706.

Latané, B., K. D Williams, and S. Harkins. 1979. "Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37:822-832.

Petty, Richard E., Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams, and Bibb Latane. 1977. "The Effects of Group Size on Cognitive Effort and Evaluation." Pers Soc Psychol Bull 3:579-582.

Szymanski, Kate, and S. Harkins. 1987. "Social loafing and self-evaluation with a social standard." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 53:891-897.

Williams, K. D, S. Harkins, and B. Latane. 1981. "Identifiability as a Detterent to Social Loafing: Two Cheering Experiments." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40:303-311.

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