Social Facilitation

Reviews all the research on how the presence of one person affects the behaviour of another, using both human and animal research.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. The History and Development of Social Facilitation Research: 2. The early history of social facilitation; 3. The drive model of Zajonc (1965); Part II. Theories of Social Facilitation: 4. Drive theories of social facilitation; 5. Social conformity theories; 6. Cognitive process theories; Part III. Experimental Studies of Social Facilitation: 7. Social facilitation effects in animals; 8. Social facilitation effects in humans; Part IV. The Place of Social Facilitation in Social Psychology: 9. Integrating the theories of social facilitation; 10. Related areas of psychology; 11. Conclusions and future social facilitation research; References; Indexes.

Summary

A 1993 study of social facilitation, the oldest topic in social psychology. Bernard Guerin reviews all the research on how the presence of one person affects the behaviour of another from the first study in 1898. He looks at both human and animal research and develops his own theory, based on modern behaviour analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Guerin, John Innes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521333580
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33358-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Series: European Monographs in Social
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology