Altruism is behavior that only considers helping others, and may actually cause harm to the individual performing it. Altruism can be seen in the passage when Lauri picks up two of her workers to take them to work even though she doesn’t have to. A conjunctive task is a task that depends on the performance of all of its members. How well the task is completed depends on how well the weakest member does. In the passage, Lauri’s boss claims that the project Steve and Lauri are working on is a conjunctive task. It will only be as good as the weakest member’s (Steve’s) performance. Diffusion of responsibility is when group members think that others will do the work for them, alleviating them of responsibility. In the passage, this is seen when
