Term ID: T5041

Social Facilitation

/social-facilitation/
The tendency for individual performance to improve or decline when others are present during task completion.
Example: Enhanced performance on simple tasks but impaired performance on complex tasks when being observed by others.

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Reference: Zajonc (1965)