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Under the influence

omorrow, I give my social-facilitation lecture. Social facilitation is the tendency to do better on easy or well-learnt tasks when we have an audience, or are competing against another person. Does that mean, by this logic, the more people you’re working with, the better you’ll do? Does one person, for example, sort fewer discs into a box than a group of four people doing

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