Social Facilitation: A solution is suggested for an old unresolved social psychological problem.
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In humans and a variety of other animals, social facilitation generally produces increments in performance of simple, highly practised or instinctive responses and impairment in performance of complex or newly learned responses.
“The changes, demonstrable in humans and a variety of other animals, are generally increments in performance (ie facilitation) of simple, highly practised or instinctive responses, and impairment in performance of complex or newly learned responses (Zajonc 1965).”
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- Authors
- Zajonc, R. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1965-07-16
- Volume
- 149
- Issue
- 3681
- Pages
- 269-274
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- 1095-9203
- Cited by
- 2,574
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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