Social facilitation

• Social failitation
• a psychological concept relating to the tendency for the presence of others to improve a person's performance on a task.
• In terms of a basic definition of social facilitation, social facilitation refers to improvement in performance induced by the real, implied, or imagined presence of others.
• e.g., Triplett first studied bicycle racing by looking at records from a cycling association. He noticed a curious phenomenon whereby cyclists who were racing against others performed better than those who were trying to beat their own times.