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Social facilitation in virtual reality-enhanced exercise: competitiveness moderates exercise effort of older adults

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2011
Cay Anderson-Hanley1,2, Amanda L Snyder1, Joseph P Nimon1, Paul J Arciero1,21Healthy Aging and Neuropsychology Lab, Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA; 2Health and Exercise Sciences Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga ...
Anderson-Hanley C, Snyder AL, Nimon JP, Arciero PJ   +3 more
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Immersive virtual reality as a social research environment. The impact of the presence of an embodied agent on the Stroop task performance based on own research

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2023
This empirical study examined the effects of the presence of others (physical observers and embodied agents) on the performance of the Stroop task within an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment.
Aleksander Walas
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Social Facilitation of Cognition in Rhesus Monkeys: Audience Vs. Coaction [PDF]

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015
Carole Guedj, Elisabetta Monfardini, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane   +2 more
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Performance increments without audience: paired data from mixed martial arts fighters during COVID-19

Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2020
During COVID-19, athletes have been forced to compete in the absence of audience. Athletic and cognitive performance have been shown to be both incremented and decremented when competing either with or without audience, something that has been termed ...
Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson, Vince Shaw
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Social Presence Outside the Augmented Reality Field of View

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
Augmented reality headsets in use today have a large area in which the real world can be seen, but virtual content cannot be displayed. Users perceptions of content in this area is not well understood.
Mark Roman Miller, Jeremy N. Bailenson
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Losing the Home Field Advantage When Playing Behind Closed Doors During COVID-19: Change or Chance?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Due to restrictions against the COVID-19 pandemic, spectators were not allowed to attend soccer matches at the end of the 2019/2020 season. Previous studies suggest that the absence of a home crowd changes the home field advantage in terms of match ...
Yannick Hill, Yannick Hill, Nico W. Van Yperen   +2 more
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Using Smartphones When Eating Increases Caloric Intake in Young People: An Overview of the Literature

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Recent literature highlights that the use of smartphones during meals increases the number of calories ingested in young people. Although the distraction interferes with physiological signals of hunger and satiety, a social facilitation effect has also ...
Marco La Marra, Giorgio Caviglia, Raffaella Perrella   +2 more
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Inspiring Real-Time Evaluation and Optimization of Human–Robot Interaction with Psychological Findings from Human–Human Interaction

Applied Sciences, 2023
The increasingly central role of robotic agents in daily life requires effective human–robot interaction (HRI). For roboticists to optimize interaction design, it is crucial to understand the potential effects of robotic agents on human performance.
Huashuo Liu, Fei Wang, Dan Zhang
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Awareness of Social Influences on Eating Is Dependent on Familiarity With Imagined Dining Partners and Type of Eating Occasion

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
When eating with strangers, people tend to eat less than they would when eating alone (social inhibition of eating), whereas they tend to eat more with family and friends (social facilitation of eating).
Suzanne Higgs, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Helen Ruddock   +2 more
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How to Facilitate Social Contagion? [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2013
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of ...
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