Social+Facilitation

toc = = = Definition: = Any positive or negative effect on performance that can be attributed to the presence of others, either as an audience or as coactors; pp. 449 Gen Psych, Chapter 14, Pg. 449

= Examples: = Jane does a wonderful job rehearsingfor the play in the privacy of her own bedroom, but once she is at practice with the rest of the cast, she cannot remember her lines.

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=In the News:= [|Dr. John and Vince Spadea on Social Facilitation] Sports Psychology Tip #1 – John F. Murray, Ph.D. – If you are a serious athlete it is extremely important to get the crowd behind you. The benefit from an audience is called the “audience effect” or “social facilitation.” It works best with advanced performers in many fields. The opposite effect, social obstruction, can reduce performance with a large crowd when the skills are not well refined.

[|Wallace: An Extension of Social Facilitation Theory to the Decision-Making Domain] Social facilitation has traditionally been defined as the influence of the presence of others on an individual’s task performance. Social presence has been shown to either facilitate or impair performance based on various moderating variables, including the more recent investigation of individual differences, but researchers have yet to extend social facilitation theory to the domain of decision-making. This study proposes to evaluate the effects of social presence on individual and group decision-making, using the personality variables of extraversion, self-esteem, neuroticism, and anxiety as potential moderating variables of this effect.

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