Ingham and colleagues (1974) asked participants to pull on a rope and found that participants pulled almost 20 percent harder when they thought they were pulling alone than when they thought they were part of a group. This finding best illustrates

a. social loafing.
b. a social dilemma.
c. groupthink.
d. social facilitation.


a

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