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Social psychology

the claim, tested with an inattentive blindfolded companion, that another person's bare presence is enough to speed easy tasks and slow hard ones.

In social psychology, mere presence hypothesis refers to the claim, tested with an inattentive blindfolded companion, that another person's bare presence is enough to speed easy tasks and slow hard ones. This meaning comes from Schmitt (1986) in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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  1. Schmitt, B. H., Gilovich, T., Goore, N., & Joseph, L. (1986). Mere presence and social facilitation: One more time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 22(3), 242-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1031(86)90027-2

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