Social Facilitation: When Others Make Us Better, or Worse
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Social Facilitation: When Others Make Us Better, or Worse

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Social facilitation explains why others' presence improves performance on easy tasks but impairs it on difficult ones.

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  1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

    2 corrections applied: Wrong journal; the pool-table study appeared in Replications in Social Psychology. | Wrong journal; Guerin & Innes (1982) appeared in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

    Before

    James Michaels, Cynthia Blommel, Rose Brocato, Russell Linkous, and John Rowe... published a 1982 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology [for both the pool-table study and Guerin & Innes].

    After

    James Michaels et al. published their pool-table study in Replications in Social Psychology (1982); Guerin and Innes published their 1982 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

    Why: Verified live: both corrections are already present in body text and bibliography (Michaels et al. 1982 correctly cited to Replications in Social Psychology; Guerin & Innes 1982 correctly cited to British Journal of Social Psychology). FAQ field checked (decoded via base64/json/base64/json) - no mention of Michaels, Guerin, or either journal name in any FAQ entry. No action required this pass; confirming the existing correct state.

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