Social Facilitation Theory People seem to act differently when other people are around. Is there a reason for this? Psychologist, Robert Zajonc (1965,1980) thinks so. He discovered that "the presence of others increases arousal, which can affect performance in different ways, depending on the task at hand" (249). This is termed the Social facilitation theory, which relates with how the presence of other people affect our behavior. Zajonc believes there are three steps to the presence of …
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…people that were around the better my performance of the kicks and punches. In relation to the social facilitation theory the easy task helped the outcome unlike my first serve in high school volley ball game. Works Cited Brehm, S. S. S., Kassin, S. M., Fein, S. (1999). Social Psychology, 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Bibliography Works Cited Brehm, S. S. S., Kassin, S. M., Fein, S. (1999). Social Psychology, 4th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.