Social Compensation: Fact or Social-Comparison Artifact?

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The use of coactors as non-group controls in prior social compensation research has left open the possibility that the effect might artifactually have resulted from a confound between work condition (Coaction vs. Collective) and the opportunity to make performance comparisons. A direct empirical test of this alternative, artifactual explanation is reported. Its results contradict that explanation and suggest that the use of coactors as controls has, if anything, resulted in an underestimation of the magnitude of the social compensation effect. It is argued that multiple alternative non-group performance baselines can be informative for analyzing group motivation effects.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 431-442
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 9(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: group performance; motivation gains; social compensation; social loafing;

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Todd, Andrew R. ; Seok, Dong-Heon ; Kerr, Norbert L. ; Messé, Lawrence A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2006

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430206064643
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227994
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST