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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"social facilitation"”.
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Social Facilitation and Test Anxiety in Flight Simulation Training
… few, have demonstrated the potential to produce social facilitation and interference effects on the participating individuals behavior and performance (Hazel, 1978). These exact effects could support or hinder learning and affect training outcomes in a training environment. The goal of the …
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Social facilitation of polydipsia as an animal model of compulsive behavior
… The purpose of this study is to test social facilitation as a potential mechanism through which compulsive behaviors are acquired, via an animal model. Schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) was employed as the behavior of interest because there is empirical support indicating it as an …
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Training Paraprofessional Staff to Facilitate Social Interactions Within a Job-Embedded Training Model
… training curriculum to increase the rates of social facilitation by paraprofessionals working with students with low-incidence disabilities in general education settings. Rates of social facilitation, and subsequent rates of social interactions between students with disabilities and their …
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Computer Monitoring in the Workplace: Performance Effects and Perceptions
… on the computer. Under the framework of social facilitation effect (Zajonc, 1965), it is possible that CPM may affect performance because of the feeling of being evaluated. In addition to its effects on performance, employees’ perceptions of CPM are important to consider when employers …
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The effect of anxious affect on drinking self-efficacy in college students
… who were either high or low on dispositional social anxiety would report lower levels of self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in response to feelings of social anxiety induced via anticipation of a self-disclosing heterosocial interaction. In addition, it was hypothesized that subjects …
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The effect of observational method and task complexity on neuropsychological test performance
… under such conditions. Past research into the social facilitation effect suggests attentional conflict (Baron, 1986; Manstead & Semin, 1980) and increased anxiety (Guerin & Innes, 1982; Guerin, 1983) when observers are present and cannot be monitored. However, this research has found …
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Use of a Two-Action Paradigm Apparatus with Captive Lemurs: Insights into Social Learning
… I used a two-action paradigm apparatus to test social learning abilities in seven lemur species at the Duke Lemur Center. There were three groups: push (had model previously taught to push), pull (had model previously taught to pull), and control (no model). I conducted experimental trials to …
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The Relationship of Social Context and Sensation Seeking to Indices to College Student Alcohol Abuse
… an anonymous questionnaire assessing the social context of college drinking and the personality trait known as sensation seeking. These measures were used to explain alcohol use intensity, frequency of alcohol impaired driving, and the frequency of riding with an impaired driver. It was …
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Exploring fast food consumption behaviours and social influence.
… diet, limited previous research has explored how social influences (including modelling, social norms and social facilitation) may increase the intake of fast foods. Therefore the aim of this dissertation was to explore environmental, social and demographic influences on the amount of fast food …
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An investigation of team lifting using psychophysical methods
… to see whether these would produce the psychosocial effects of social loafing and social facilitation. Three male and three female two-person teams performed team lifts, using psychophysical methodology, under all four conditions. The only significant effect found was for gender. Female teams …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND ALCOHOL USE IN A COLLEGE STUDENT SAMPLE
Some individuals with social phobia frequently use alcohol, a behavior that may often result in the alleviation of anticipatory or performance anxiety in social situations. Reinforcement of drinking behavior may eventually lead to alcohol abuse or possibly the more severe condition of dependence. …
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The Adolescent Smoking Prevention Project: A Web-Based Smoking Prevention for Adolescents
… offer of a cigarette. Furthermore, both negative social impressions and negative affect reduction expectancies significantly predicted participants’ willingness to leave the situation if offered a cigarette. Gender, resistance self-efficacy and social facilitation outcome expectancies (OEs) …
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Predictors of Adolescent E-cigarette Use
… Although negative physical feelings, social facilitation, and exposure to information about the dangers of smoking did not have statistically significant effects on lifetime e-cigarette use, their effect sizes also implied clinical significance. Attitudes toward cigarette addiction and …
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Re-framing the dancer: the critical evaluation of an aesthetic and ideology for integrated dance
… activity that pertains to ethical and social facilitation. The critical reflective practice and cross-evaluation (from a phenomenological perspective) presents research findings that provide subjective (experiential) and philosophical evidence that contributes to the field of …
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The relationship between social anxiety and alcohol consumption in college students: Scale development, construct validation, and testing of a social cognitive model
… heavy alcohol use. The following study used a social-cognitive based model to prospectively examine heavy drinking among socially anxious college students. It was hypothesized that alcohol expectancies of social facilitation/anxiety reduction and self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in …
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From persuasion to negotiation in health promoting technology
… HCI. Given the prevalence of self-monitoring and social facilitation in emerging designs, the assumption appears to be that increasing an individual’s awareness of his or her behaviour and the behaviour of others will promote behavioural change. This thesis argues that while this is true to some …
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