Social facilitation

Humans may run faster, read less or type more quickly, simply because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects the behaviour of another: this is known as social facilitation and is one of the oldest topics in social psychology. Despite its importance this was the first book-length...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Guerin, Bernard, 1957- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme 1993.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
European monographs in social psychology.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39724608*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • I. The history and development of social facilitation research. The early history of social facilitation
  • The drive model of Zajonc (1965)
  • II. Theories of social facilitation. Drive theories of social facilitation
  • Social conformity theories
  • Cognitive process theories
  • III. Experimental studies of social facilitation. Social facilitation effects in animals
  • Social facilitation effects in humans
  • IV. The place of social facilitation in social psychology. Integrating the theories of social facilitation
  • Related areas of psychology
  • Conclusions and future social facilitation research.