Person
Bibb Latané
Social psychologist; social loafing researcher
Social psychologist whose clapping-and-shouting experiments (with colleagues) demonstrated that individual effort in a group shrinks as group size grows — see Latané Clapping-Shouting Social-Loafing Study. Given as "Bib Lantin" in the episode audio; corrected here to the real researcher, best known separately for co-developing bystander-effect research with John Darley.
Discussed in
- Episode 130 — 130-why-working-at-a-large-organisation-will-kill-your-creativity