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2 unusual facts about Social facilitation


Expectancy violations theory

Social Facilitation Model has a similar outlook and labels these differences as unstable changes.

Two other theories share similar outlooks to EVT – Discrepancy-Arousal Theory and Patterson’s Social Facilitation Model.


Motor cognition

The fact that the observation of action can prime a similar response in the observer, and that the degree to which the observed action facilitates a similar response in the observer cast some light into the phenomenon called social facilitation, first described by Robert Zajonc, which accounts for the demonstration that the presence of other people can affect individual performance.


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