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audience effect

audience effect noun: a type of social facilitation in which the presence of an audience influences individual task performance.

Noun

audience effect (plural audience effects)

  1. A type of social facilitation in which the presence of an audience influences individual task performance.
    • Overall, understanding and exploring the audience effect may contribute to our models of social interaction, including reputation management and mentalising.2016 October 13, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Frida Lind, “Audience effects: what can they tell us about social neuroscience, theory of mind and autism?”, in Culture and Brain, volume 4, number 2...

Forms of audience effect

pluralaudience effects

Questions about audience effect

What does audience effect mean?
Audience effect means a type of social facilitation in which the presence of an audience influences individual task performance.
What part of speech is audience effect?
Audience effect is a noun.
What is the plural of audience effect?
The plural of audience effect is audience effects.

Words near audience effect in the dictionary

  1. audiblizes
  2. audiblizing
  3. audibly
  4. Audie
  5. audience
  6. audience effect
  7. audience effects
  8. audience hall
  9. audience halls
  10. audience left
  11. audience right

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