Option A is correct, Hiranya indulges in social loafing as she slacks off her assigned specific tasks and waits till someone else takes on her share of the work given by professor Rahal.
Social psychology has a term for this behavior: social loafing. It's what happens when someone works less hard when they feel like they're being judged as a member of a group. When compared to when the same person is working alone or being evaluated individually, this degree of effort is lower.
Max Ringelmann, a French agricultural engineer, first described social loafing while researching group performance.
In tasks where the contributions of each group member are integrated to produce a group output, making it challenging to pinpoint the contribution of a single person, social loafing is more noticeable.
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