In the article, Individualism in Groups, written by Carol Travis, “she spoke about the how people act and behave differently a group setting.'' They are reluctant to  response to any given emergency and certain incident and accident. Most people decision making is less productive because of the influence that affect the individual judgment within the group.”The larger the group the more dependent individual become. 

I agree that people in larger group feel more comfortable.They feel that they do not of to think hard about the project or situation because there are people in that group that are willing participants.This is in reference to the Psychologist in the article who call this behavior,"diffusion of responsibility." As the group gets larger there will be more people that are more out spoken and ready to react to any given situation. Take for instant last month my professor gave the class an assignment to read an article and from that atricle we must  find the main idea. He broke us up into groups of four. Within my group there were only two people who participate. The people who were participating were reading the paragraph, highligthing and circling the sentences of the main idea. The nonparticipant did not speak, their focus was not with the group. The participating students would sometime ask the nonparticipating students if they understand what they are suppose to do, the repond was sometime vague, however the active student incourages the nonactive students to participate, so that our group will be ready whenever the professor is ready to call upon us to give the answer of what the main idea is in the article. 

Couple months ago in the news teachers were the blame for failure and closing of some schools in New York . I don’t think the failure of children and closing of schools is only the teacher’s responsibility when the school system is made up of a large group of parents, teachers principal and other faculties why wait for the teachers to improve the school when there are many other element and sources is responsible such as parents participation, environment, and economy improvement.

People are more reluctant and are influence by the group in which they are associated with. The responsibility is diminish in large groups.