Authors
Jim Blascovich, Wendy Berry Mendes, Sarah B Hunter, Kristen Salomon
Publication date
1999/7
Journal
Journal of personality and social psychology
Volume
77
Issue
1
Pages
68
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Description
The authors conducted an experiment to test a theoretical explanation of social facilitation based on the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat. Participants mastered 1 of 2 tasks and subsequently performed either the mastered (ie, well-learned) or the unlearned task either alone or with an audience while cardiovascular responses were recorded. Cardiovascular responses of participants performing a well-learned task in the presence of others fit the challenge pattern (ie, increased cardiac response and decreased vascular resistance), whereas cardiovascular responses of participants performing an unlearned task in the presence of others fit the threat pattern (ie, increased cardiac response and increased vascular resistance), confirming the authors' hypotheses and the applicability of the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat to explain these results.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all …
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J Blascovich, WB Mendes, SB Hunter, K Salomon - Journal of personality and social psychology, 1999