Professor smith has long used group projects in her courses. the groups have always performed extraordinarily well, and students seem to learn a great deal from such projects. having just taken a new job at a different college, dr. smith finds that the group projects are of considerably lower quality. what might you conclude given the work of karau and williams (1993)?

The dip in the performance of groups could be due social loafing. This is the tendency for individuals to exert less effort when they are in a group than they would have had they been alone. This can result from a feeling that their effort is trivial and would not matter to the group.

intimacy, passion and commitment are the components of a interpersonal relationship emphasized in the triangular theory of love by robert sternberg.

the triangular theory of love says love can be comprehend as this componest form the vertices of a triangle.  

intimacy relates to feelings such as of closeness and connection;

passion relates the drives that brings people together, as physical attraction.

commitment relates to the being in a long-term relationship.

answer; humanistic;