Social-Facilitation-and-Impairment Effects: From Motivation to Cognition and the Social Brain

Belletier, Clément; Normand, Alice; Huguet, Pascal

doi:10.1177/0963721419829699

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“…Alternatively, the mere social presence of other co-actors (indicated by the other spotlights displayed on the computer screen) may have resulted in higher individual search speeds rather than joint task performance. Relatedly, research on social facilitation and impairments effects has investigated how the mere presence of another person can improve or worsen performance compared to performing the same task alone (for a recent review, see Belletier et al (2019)). Future studies may test whether the increase in the individual search speeds and drop in search accuracy in the present visual search task is due to the mere presence of others or due to performing a task jointly.…”

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Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Wahn

Czeszumski

Labusch

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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In daily life, humans often perform visual tasks, such as solving puzzles or searching for a friend in a crowd. Performing these visual searches jointly with a partner can be beneficial: The two task partners can devise effective division of labour strategies and thereby outperform individuals who search alone. To date, it is unknown whether these group benefits scale up to triads or whether the cost of coordinating with others offsets any potential benefit for group sizes above two. To address this question, we compare participants' performance in a visual search task that they perform either alone, in dyads, or in triads. When the search task is performed jointly, co-actors receive information about each other's gaze location. After controlling for speed-accuracy trade-offs, we found that triads searched faster than dyads, suggesting that group benefits do scale up to triads. Moreover, we found that the triads' divided the search space in accordance with the co-actors' individual search performances but searched less efficiently than dyads. We also present a linear model to predict group benefits, which accounts for 70% of the variance. The model includes our experimental factors and a set of non-redundant predictors, quantifying the similarities in the individual performances, the collaboration between co-actors, and the estimated benefits that co-actors would attain without collaborating. Overall, the present study demonstrates that group benefits scale up to larger group sizes, but the additional gains are attenuated by the increased costs associated with devising effective division of labour strategies.

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Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Wahn

Czeszumski

Labusch

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Alternatively, one could suggest that these effects are (at least in part) explained by social impairment effects (for a recent review, see Belletier et al (2019)). That is, simply the presence of another person may already produce a reduced performance on the visual counting task.…”

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Performing a task jointly enhances the sound-induced flash illusion

Wahn

Rohe

Gearhart

et al. 2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Our senses are stimulated continuously. Through multisensory integration, different sensory inputs may or may not be combined into a unitary percept. Simultaneous with this stimulation, people are frequently engaged in social interactions, but how multisensory integration and social processing interact is largely unknown. The present study investigated if, and how, the multisensory sound-induced flash illusion is affected by a social manipulation. In the sound-induced flash illusion, a participant typically receives one visual flash and two auditory beeps and she or he is required to indicate the number of flashes that were perceived. Often, the auditory beeps alter the perception of the flashes such that a participant tends to perceive two flashes instead of one flash. We tested whether performing a flash counting task with a partner (confederate), who was required to indicate the number of presented beeps, would modulate this illusion. We found that the sound-induced flash illusion was perceived significantly more often when the flash counting task was performed with the confederate compared with performing it alone. Yet, we no longer find this effect if visual access between the two individuals is prevented. These findings, combined with previous results, suggest that performing a multisensory task jointly—in this case an audiovisual task—lowers the extent to which an individual attends to visual information, which in turn affects the multisensory integration process.

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“…The dual attention effect could be explained by changes in response inhibition across attention sharing conditions. Evaluative pressure increases distractability of irrelevant stimuli comprising features contingent to one's task set (Belletier et al, 2019;Normand, Bouquet, & Croizet, 2014). This interference occurs at the response selection stage due to a greater visuomotor priming from the irrelevant (but contingent) stimuli (Normand et al, 2014).…”

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When Sharing Attention Does Not Help: Reduced Attention Effect in Pairs

Diaz¹,

Wang²,

He³

2020

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Research has generally suggested enhanced cognitive performance when performing jointly with others in social settings. However, the interpersonal influence on visuospatial attention was not well understood. With a newly developed dual attention paradigm, we investigated how paying attention to the same spatial location with another person affects one’s attention performance. Participant pairs independently performed go/no-go tasks to visual targets while sustainedly attending to same or different locations, and showed reduced attention effects when sharing spatial attention (Experiment 1, N = 40). This dual attention effect relied on the presence of another individual performing a similar task, being reversed when participants performed the same task in isolation (Experiment 2, N = 38), and persisted under an increased perceptual load (Experiment 3, N = 45). These data showed a diminishing effect of shared attention, likely driven by stronger response inhibition or increased mentalizing/monitoring when people attended together.

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Social-Facilitation-and-Impairment Effects: From Motivation to Cognition and the Social Brain

Cited by 50 publications

References 40 publications

Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Dyadic and triadic search: Benefits, costs, and predictors of group performance

Performing a task jointly enhances the sound-induced flash illusion

When Sharing Attention Does Not Help: Reduced Attention Effect in Pairs

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