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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 January 2010
      18 March 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511628214
      9780521333580
      9780521119795
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628214
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 254 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      European Monographs in Social Psychology
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    European Monographs in Social Psychology
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    Humans may run faster, read less or type more quickly, simply because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects the behaviour of another: this is known as social facilitation and is one of the oldest topics in social psychology. Despite its importance this was the first book-length study of the phenomenon when it was published in 1993. Dr Guerin reviewed all work in the area from 1898 onwards, looking at both animal and human research, and developed his own theory, based on modern behaviour analysis. The book will be appreciated for its wide-ranging and balanced review of previous work on social facilitation and for the general review of the state of social psychology during the 1990s that Dr Guerin's work on the phenomenon includes. The author's theoretical stance is innovative and important, and will make the work required reading.

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    "...contains a lot of useful history and summarized information about effects of social facilitation, including reviews of the major theories of social facilitation (drive, social conformity, cognitive process) and a bibliography of over 700 references spanning work since 1898....of interest to social, cognitive, and clinical psychologists." Psychological Report

    "...this second edition offers a wealth of fresh research and new case examples as well as seven completely new chapters..." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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