PSYC 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Loafing, Social Facilitation, Deindividuation
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Group influence: sometimes having others around, especially if they are doing the same sorts of activities, can help our performance of those activities, social facilitation we will perform tasks more quickly, more accurately around other people. If something is almost too easy then you can zone out completely: for very simple tasks, a little bit of distraction is good, for complex tasks distraction can cause arousal and hurt your performance. Then you went into the actual study itself and the participant got to administer shocks to the confederate because they were told the study had to do with punishment effects on teaching. If you wear a mask or drink alcohol with increase your sense of deindividuation. It doesn"t have to be bad, but it is usually bad: example singing christmas carols in a big group even though you aren"t a good singer and wouldn"t sing alone, typically happens in big crowds.
