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distraction-conflicttheory1 CONSTRUCTDistraction-conflictSANDERS · SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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the account that an audience or coactors help simple tasks and hurt complex ones because the conflict between attending to them and to the task raises drive.

In social psychology, distraction-conflict theory refers to the account that an audience or coactors help simple tasks and hurt complex ones because the conflict between attending to them and to the task raises drive. This meaning comes from Sanders (1978) in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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  1. Sanders, G. S., Baron, R. S., & Moore, D. L. (1978). Distraction and social comparison as mediators of social facilitation effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 14(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1031(78)90017-3

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