The car needed a "big push" to get it to turn it again. I got off, and two passers-by pushed with us. And we were pushing with reasonable force. Quite a few people joined us and the car finally spun around.
I noticed that despite the joining of a large number, the momentum did not correspond to the increase in the number, but rather it began to decrease until it reached a level close to the level of our triple performance at the beginning.
A strange thing... Social psychology calls it social loafing and its expressive translation is "social laziness", or the Ringelmann effect.
By the Ringelman Effect phenomenon, we mean that if an individual is in the midst of a group performing a specific task, he tends to exert less effort than the same effort he would exert if he was alone performing this task.
This phenomenon is mainly due to:
1- Distributing responsibility to a large number of people, Some individuals feel that they are not responsible for the outcome of their efforts, and that the matter is proceeding without them as well.
2- The absence of individual motivation for a person, who, if he exerts a great effort, will not show people the extent of his excellence and the greatness of his contribution.
3- Poor coordination and lines of communication between the working group.
So if you intend to do a certain household task while you are on the pension, do not use the whole family because one of the your young children will refrain from working 馃槃