These findings are good news for me as a professor! I definitely see the reason for the study, though, and am curious what the results would look like if the limitations are addressed (mainly N size).

This is interesting. I was definitely worried about increased social loafing when my methods class went remote last spring! You mention a limitation of not having a manipulation check for your scales and I was interested in what you envisioned would help with that limitation. What manipulation check would you use?

As a social psychologist I love to see research in this area! Good idea to look at online vs face to face and how students are graded. Interesting study. Sorry it didn’t work out the way you predicted.

This was a great study – sorry it didn’t work out. I definitely feel as though social loafing occurs more when students are graded as a group. But of course, not everyone socially loafs – someone does the work for everyone! So maybe participants were also thinking about those people when responding!

Very cool idea for a research study! Would love to see what would happen if it weren’t perception that was measured but actual behavior. Social compensation might also be a factor here.

I wonder if the people who would loaf didn’t finish the study. 🙁 I also wonder if people would have responded differently if you asked them what they would do in each situation.

Great topic. Good job.

This sounds like a good study! I’m sorry your data did not work out as hypothesized. Maybe a bigger participant pool next time would work better.

With my teaching background, I found this study interesting.