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Social psychology is concerned with the effects of the presence of others; the study of social facilitation, which specifically addresses such effects, should therefore be identifiable as the central focus of the discipline. However, since Zajonc's (1965) seminal integration, this field has been dominated by the asocial drive-theoretical interpretation which he proposed. This interpretation is challenged on five main grounds: that it fails to explain adequately the early findings in the field; that the most influential subsequent tests of it are unsatisfactory; that a large number of studies which appear to contradict it have gone uncited and unheeded; that Hull-Spence drive theory is problematic per se: and that its application to the core of social psychology is inappropriate and has led to an impoverished conceptualization of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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