We have all done it. Whether running a race, changing a car tyre or tossing a pancake, we did it better than ever before, whilst we were in front of an audience, and inside we said ‘YES!’ That is an example of social facilitation, where the fact of having people observe us doing a simple […] Read more »

The Historical Context One of the most studied areas in social psychology is the influence of groups on behaviour. Experiments on group influence go back 80 years, to Jennes’ experiment on conformity to a group norm.  He put beans in a jar and asked all the participants to examine it and declare their estimate of […] Read more »

The Learning Process From when we are born, what we learn, the order and way we learn it, is not as random and chaotic as it might seem but organised and follows, more or less, a clearly defined pattern. If you have watched young children develop you will know that most crawl or shuffle before […] Read more »