PSYC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 71: Foot-In-The-Door Technique, Social Loafing, Social Facilitation
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When people interact, they almost always affect one another"s behaviour. Classic sidewalk experiment; various numbers of people stood on a busy new york sidewalk. All at once each actor turned towards the same second story window on a building across the street. Other non-actors stopped and looked on with the actors to see what was going on. (the larger the influential group the more people were swayed to join in) The tendency to change your behaviour just because someone else is near. Picking your nose; you would stop when someone entered the room. You would go faster according to triplett (this is social facilitation) Social facilitation : the tendency to perform better when in the presence of others. If you are confident then your performance is most likely to be facilitated if not then your performance will most likely be impaired. Social loafing is another consequence of having other people nearby.
