Social FacilitationBy

Aaron Chan & Jewel Conrad

What is it?

Increased performance? Helps us understand ourselves Helps us make decisions

ex. Lyon center vs. running around campus Not limited to exercise

Simple skills Social Facilitation Theory

Atmosphere of evaluation

Experiment

We performed an experiment for replicability and validity

We screened 10 participants, 5 males, 5 females

Other than gender, the selection was random

Control GroupSingle Runner

Experimental Group Group Run

• Overall the participants got faster by a mean of 18.8 seconds during the group run.

• There was a larger difference in the times of male participants.

Results

Mean Diff.(sec) % Difference

Females 15.2 1.41%

Males 22.4 2.44%

Both 18.8 1.92%

Table 1. Mean second and % increase in performance between female, males, and both.

Participant:Controlled

Run Group RunMale 1 14:23 13:50Female 1 17:15 16:52Male 2 15:00 14:45Female 2 19:05 18:20male 3 17:40 17:00Female 3 13:01 12:50Male 4 12:03 11:48Female 4 15:32 15:20Male 5 18:07 17:58Female 5 16:20 16:15

Table 2. Specific values of individuals amount of time taken to run.

Figure 1. Graph of Participants and time taken to run 2 miles. Red represents the control group, blue represents the experiment group.

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• Gyms can get people to come by showing group workouts are more effective.

Gym memberships, group workout classes.• Targeted towards those who have trouble

motivating themselves during workouts-not trained athletes.• However, it depends on the environment and

type of audience.

Audience and Applications

BUT WAIT!!!

Task Complexity

Simple Skills Autonomous Requires little attention span

Complex Skills Requires large attention span Complicated and practiced in training

Social Disruption

Complex skills are performed worse in the presence of others

Negative response to an environment of evaluation