Lesyk and Bebo are arguing about whether playing in a team tug-of-war makes a person work more or less than playing it one on one. Lesyk argues that it makes you loaf because of diffusion of responsibility. Bebo presents the opposite argument; the situation would make you work harder because of

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Social facilitation is the tendency for people to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated. Therefore, playing in a team tug-of-war where individual performance can be evaluated by others will likely make a person work harder due to the presence of others, which is the concept of social facilitation. The other options (facility reciprocation effect and foot-in-the-door technique) are unrelated to the concept of playing in a team tug-of-war.

Lesyk and Bebo Are Arguing About Whether Playing in a Team