Scenario C. You are assigned a team project in one of your most important classes. You are concerned about this project because a large portion of your grade is dependent upon this team's performance. There are, in general, some hard-working and committed students on your team. However, you have one team member, whose nickname is "Man," who feels that the course is not important and that he has other, more important, things to do. "Man" has decided to let the others do the work. There are a few other team members who work hard as long as you are all together, but don't work well on their own.
-In this situation,the student nicknamed "Man" is illustrating which of the following concepts?
A)Cooptation
B)Virtuality
C)Social loafing
D)Social facilitation effect
E)Norms

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"Man" is exhibiting social loafing, which is when someone in a group does not contribute their fair share of work and relies on others to do so. This behavior can be detrimental to the overall group performance and lead to unfairness.