Reaction in the Presence of Other People

Reaction in the presence of other people is a term of the social psychology. Henk Wilke and Arjaan Wit define possible basic responses of the individuals and responses of the individuals in the presence of other people.

• Dominant responses - response of a person’s repertoire responses, especially well-learned or instinctive reaction.
• Non-dominant responses - new, complex or untested responses that an individual had not or rarely used
• Social facilitation - a higher incidence of the predominant responses due to the presence of others
• Social inhibition - a lower incidence of non-dominant responses due to the presence of others
• Evaluation apprehension - a stressful situation of a man whose behavior is observed by others; it can cause the anxiety and lead to poor performance or to the performance improvement, depending on how much an individual the performance knows and how much he practiced it
• Attention conflict - a conflict between paying attention on the task, and paying attention to other persons present