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Ringelmann effect  

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  • The Ringelmann effect is a systematic reduction of individual effort on a task as the number of people performing the task increases. The effect, named after Maximilien Ringelmann, who first reported it in 1913, was described in 1927 by Walther Moede in a German journal on industrial psychology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations; Ringelmann Effect]

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