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Social-Facilitation-and-Impairment Effects: From Motivation to Cognition and the Social Brain

Clément Belletier Alice Normand ORCID Pascal Huguet ORCID
Current Directions in Psychological Science Vol. 28 No. 3 pp. 260-265 · SAGE Publications
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Abstract
For more than a century, social psychologists have been trying to understand how the presence of conspecifics—perhaps the most fundamental invariant of behavior in many, if not all, animal species—affects behavior. Although this issue, traditionally referred to using the term social-facilitation-and-impairment effects, has generated much interest, the impact of social presence on attentional mechanisms—especially those related to executive attention—has been mostly ignored, as have the neural bases of these phenomena. Here, we describe a series of findings indicating that social presence may have strong effects on attentional mechanisms and may even play a key role in the modulation of neuronal activity. Not only do these findings provide new reasons to pay constant attention to the social environment of cognition, but they also have important implications for the practice of psychological science.
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Published
Mar 28, 2019
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28(3)
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260-265
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Clément Belletier

Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Clermont Auvergne

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Alice Normand

Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Clermont Auvergne

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Pascal Huguet

Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Clermont Auvergne

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Clément Belletier, Alice Normand, Pascal Huguet (2019). Social-Facilitation-and-Impairment Effects: From Motivation to Cognition and the Social Brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(3), 260-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419829699
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