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The social animal - Coggle Diagram
The social animal
Human traits that make us social
Perspective talking
Increases self-other overlap
Decreases negative response to others
(Galinsky & Moskowitz, 2000)
Fosters social bonds and facilitates social coordination
(Galinsky et al., 2005)
Empathy
With empathetic response, people engage more in altruistic (unselfish) behaviours.
(Batson, 1991)
Theory of mind / Iterative perspective talking
Levels of intentionality an individual can maintain correlates with social network size
(Stiller & Dunbar, 2007)
Social facilitation and Inhibition
Presence of others affects our own behaviour
Competition improves performance
(Triplett, 1898)
Social facilitation is due to mere presence of others - co-action as well as competition
(Allport, 1920)
Social Facilitation and Inhibition theories
Drive theory
(Zajonc, 1965)
Start with one underlying process
Formulate so that it can either to lead to one effect or another
Specify under which conditions one or the other happens
Its the task difficulty that decides between positive and negative effects
Evaluation Apprehension Model
(Cottrell, 1972)
Believes audiences are relevant
Confederate to experimenter was standing in front of an audience.
In some conditions was blindfolded.
Can't expect to be evaluated by audience, so no effects
Biologically, we are all animals