Adam is part of a group organized to increase blood donations in a local community. as a social psychologist, adam has a relevant background in persuasion tactics, but his group members fail to realize the important contributions he could make. this scenario is an example of

The scenario is an example of process loss

it is often conceptualised as the loss of effort that could have contributed to optimum benefits when a group is tasked to undertake a particular task. In the scenario, the non-contribution of Adam leads to a loss of benefit that would other wise have accrued from adam's persuasion power.