Social “Facilitation” as Challenge and Threat
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1999
Keywords
biopsychosocial approach to social "facilitation" as challenge or threat patterns & cardiovascular responses, college students
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.77.1.68
Abstract
The authors conducted an experiment to test a theoretical explanation of social facilitation based on the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat. Participants mastered 1 of 2 tasks and subsequently performed either the mastered (i.e., well-learned) or the unlearned task either alone or with an audience while cardiovascular responses were recorded. Cardiovascular responses of participants performing a well-learned task in the presence of others fit the challenge pattern (i.e., increased cardiac response and decreased vascular resistance), whereas cardiovascular responses of participants performing an unlearned task in the presence of others fit the threat pattern (i.e., increased cardiac response and increased vascular resistance), confirming the authors' hypotheses and the applicability of the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat to explain these results.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v. 11, issue 77, p. 68-77
Scholar Commons Citation
Blascovich, Jim; Mendes, Wendy B.; Hunter, Sarah B.; and Salomon, Kristen, "Social “Facilitation” as Challenge and Threat" (1999). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1857.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1857
