Tag
Arousal
Entries tagged arousal.
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Concept
Social Facilitation and Social Loafing
Other people can make you try harder or slacker: their mere presence sharpens easy tasks and spoils hard ones, while being pooled anonymously into a group makes everyone quietly ease off.
10 min
Mental modelThe Yerkes-Dodson Law
Performance improves as arousal rises but only up to a peak, and that peak sits lower for hard tasks than for easy ones.
8 min