Facts about Social Facilitation

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   Evaluation apprehension, a refinement proposed by Nickolas Cottrell, argues that social facilitation effects depend on concern about being judged, not mere presence alone.

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   Cockroaches running a maze faster in the presence of other cockroaches served as a classic animal demonstration of social facilitation effects.

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   Distraction-conflict theory, developed by Robert Baron, extends social facilitation by arguing that an audience creates attentional conflict, not just mere presence arousal.

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   The drive theory explanation of social facilitation suggests that an audience triggers a dominant response, meaning well-learned behaviors are enhanced while novel ones suffer.

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   Norman Triplett's 1898 experiment on cyclists, often cited as psychology's first social experiment, provided early evidence for what later became known as social facilitation.

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   Robert Zajonc's 1965 theory of social facilitation proposed that the mere presence of others increases arousal, improving performance on simple tasks but impairing performance on complex ones.

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