The social facilitation of eating or the facilitation of social eating? [PDF]
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2017 People eat more when they eat in groups. Various explanations have been offered for this “social facilitation” of eating. We consider these explanations and find most of them wanting, especially insofar as they do not take into account the increased per ...
C. Peter Herman
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Moderators of Social Facilitation Effect in Virtual Reality: Co-presence and Realism of Virtual Agents [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Social facilitation has been researched for decades, but in the face of the development of virtual reality technology, new questions arise regarding the possibility of its occurrence in this environment —in the presence of computer-generated agents. Past
Paweł M. Strojny +7 more
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Cloud-Based Commensality: Enjoy the Company of Co-diners Without Social Facilitation of Eating [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Previous research has associated frequently enforced solo dining with negative consequences on psychological well-being, but the problem of having to eat alone may be solved by seeking mealtime companions in the digital space by watching an eating ...
Chujun Wang +3 more
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Oxytocin and the social facilitation of placebo effects. [PDF]
Mol Psychiatry, 2022 Significant clinical improvement is often observed in patients who receive placebo treatment in randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials. While a proportion of this "improvement" reflects experimental design limitations (e.g., reliance on subjective outcomes, unbalanced groups, reporting biases), some of it reflects genuine improvement ...
Itskovich E +3 more
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Under the Gaze: How and When Being Observed Facilitates Innovative Behavior [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesDrawing on social facilitation theory and regulatory focus theory, we propose and test a moderated mediation model in which being observed promotes employees’ innovative behavior through willingness to share knowledge, with regulatory focus serving as a ...
Xue Zhang +4 more
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Effects of Social Facilitation and Introduction Methods for Cattle on Virtual Fence Adaptation [PDF]
AnimalsAgricultural industries rely on physical fences to manage livestock. However, these present practical, financial, and ecological challenges, which may be solved using virtual fencing.
Pernille Arent Simonsen +11 more
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Neural substrates of social facilitation effects on incentive-based performance [PDF]
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2018 Vikram Chib +2 more
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Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research
International Journal of the Commons, 2022 There is considerable interest in collective management as a potential solution to complex environmental problems, but existing research offers little guidance for the messy real-world task of creating new institutions.
Jim Sinner +5 more
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Reviewing Social Facilitation in Insects Over the Past 30 Years
Sociobiology, 2023 Social facilitation is a phenomenon in which individuals from a group show behavioral changes due to the presence of other organisms of the same species.
Aparecida Fonseca Fonseca +1 more
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A Systematic Review of the Sport Psychology Mixed Martial Arts Literature: Replication and Extension
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2022 MMA is a global sport with a growing body of psychological literature. Our main objective was to replicate and extend a past review concerning the sport psychology literature with MMA participants.
Sydney Cooper, Marc Lochbaum
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