First, I want you to try to socially facilitate some sort of behavior. This is the basics of social facilitation – the mere presence of being around others effects behavior. There are some very simple things you can do to try to facilitate the behavior of others (I already gave the example of pulling out your cell-phone), for example, stand at a busy street corner and look-up…how many other people look up too?
You need to describe the situation, who, what, when, where…
What behavior did you try to socially facilitate?
Did it work? Why do you think it did or didn’t work?
Second, I want you to experience the atmosphere of evaluation created by social facilitation. Are you really good at something? Or are you really bad at something? I want you to engage in a behavior that you are good or bad at while in a group setting (for example, I am horrible at the sport of billiards; when there is a large group of people around watching I am even worse).
Describe the situation: who, what, when, where…
What behavior are you going to engage in? Are you good or bad at it?
Do you think the group affected your behavior? Tell me why you think they did or did not affect your behavior.
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