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Social Facilitation

Journal of Food Products Marketing, 2005
Social facilitation, the theory, originated out of the field of experimental social psychology as a means of explaining individual's behavior in social situations. Social facilitation is described as enhancing one's dominant response simply by being in the presence of others.
Carol J. Gaumer, William C. LaFief
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The social facilitation of eating. A review

Appetite, 2015
The social facilitation of eating (i.e., people eating more in groups than when alone) has been studied for about three decades now. In this paper, we review the empirical research (diary studies, observational studies, and experimental studies) of social facilitation, attending to factors that increase or decrease socially facilitated eating.
C Peter Herman
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Social Facilitation

Science, 1965
Robert B Zajonc, R B Zajonc
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Social Anxiety and Social Facilitation

Psychological Reports, 1979
A measure of social anxiety was used to predict whether 40 college students' performance on a simple task would be socially facilitated or impaired by the presence of an audience.
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Pets as Social Facilitators

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1985
Pets not only interact directly with people but, through their presence alone, may also modify the social behavior between two or more people. Examples of this latter effect are offered from the literature on pet-facilitated therapy, pets and children, and pets in the community.
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Social facilitation

Motivation and Emotion, 1979
Video-recording procedures have been used in previous research as a motivational manipulation. The present study investigated the permanent recording o f behavior as a manipulation o f evaluation apprehension and its effects upon behavioral performance and upon autonomic arousal. Twenty-four subjects (12 males, 12 females) were randomly assigned to one
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Social facilitation with social robots?

Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2012
Regarding the future usage of social robots in workplace scenarios, we addressed the question of potential mere robotic presence effects on human performance. Applying the experimental social facilitation paradigm in social robotics, we compared task performance of 106 participants on easy and complex cognitive and motoric tasks across three presence ...
Riether, Nina   +3 more
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Social Facilitation

2016
Research conducted for more than a century has shown that the presence of others improves performance on simple tasks and debilitates it on complex tasks, whether these others are audience members or coactors. In this chapter, we review theories offered to account for how two features of these others, their mere presence and/or the potential for ...
Allison E. Seitchik   +2 more
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