Steve is very unhappy in his job and often displays his unhappiness by playing on his phone during meetings. Soon, Leslie begins playing games during meetings and Leslie is followed by Judy. This office is suffering from ____

a. altruistic punishment
b. the social facilitation effect
c. the bad apple effect
d. deindividuation


C

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