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10 Jan 2006

Online, social loafers become productive when given a challenge



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Online, social loafers become productive when given a challenge

New research shows that people in online groups contribute more when issued a challenge and when they believe their efforts provide a unique benefit.
...The paper, "Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online
Communities," appeared in the proceedings of the Association for
Computing Machinery Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative last
month.

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