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The social facilitation effect is a well-known social-psychological phenomenon. It describes how performance changes depending on the presence or absence of others. The current study investigates if the social facilitation effect can also be observed while interacting with anthropomorphic robots.
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Wechsung, I., Ehrenbrink, P., Schleicher, R., Möller, S. (2014). Investigating the Social Facilitation Effect in Human–Robot Interaction. In: Mariani, J., Rosset, S., Garnier-Rizet, M., Devillers, L. (eds) Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8280-2_15
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