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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (216628)	2/11/2013 10:38:27 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

that is very interesting.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (216628)	2/11/2013 1:46:06 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

Rat, are you trying to make me crazy??? Excerpt from your citation: "Such behaviour was first noticed by Triplett (1898) while observing the cyclists who were racing together versus cyclists who were racing alone.[ citation needed] It was found that the mere presence of other cyclists produced greater performance. A similar effect was observed by Chen (1937) in ants building colonies.[ citation needed] However, it was not until Zajonc investigated this behaviour in the 1960s that any empirical explanation for the audience effect was pursued.[ citation needed] Zajonc's drive theory is based on an experiment [3] involving the investigation of the effect of social facilitation in cockroaches. Zajonc devised a study in which individual cockroaches were released into a tube, at the end of which there was a light. In the presence of other cockroaches as spectators, cockroaches were observed to achieve a significantly faster time in reaching the light than those in the control, no-spectator group. However, when cockroaches in the same conditions were given a maze to negotiate, performance was impaired in the spectator condition, demonstrating that incorrect dominant responses in the presence of an audience impair performance." Cockroaches? Ed