Social Facilitation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: The importance of microenvironments associated with specific living units.

30 Aug 2009 Risky drinking among college students differs as a function of living types, with living at Greek houses as a major risk factor. Both self-selection based on prior drinking and socialization through living environments have been shown to account for ... Read more...

Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge.

30 Jul 2009 This study examined an ecological perspective on the development of antisocial behavior during adolescence, examining direct, additive, and interactive effects of child and both parenting and community factors in relation to youth problem behavior. ... Read more...

Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The present study uses data from a community sample of 779 low-SES boys to investigate whether intervention by the juvenile justice system is determined, at least in part, by particular individual, familial and social conditions, and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Facilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: The importance of microenvironments associated with specific living units. 30 Aug 2009
• Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
• Exposure to tobacco on the internet: content analysis of adolescents' internet use. 18 Jul 2009
• [Complex cardiac rehabilitation in a strategy of secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease] 29 Jun 2009
• Watching and drinking: expectancies, prototypes, and friends' alcohol use mediate the effect of exposure to alcohol use in movies on adolescent drinking. 29 Jun 2009
• Psychological and social risk factors in adolescent smoking transitions: a population-based longitudinal study. 29 Jun 2009
• Aggressive behavior between siblings and the development of externalizing problems: evidence from a genetically sensitive study. 29 Jun 2009
• The alliance hypothesis for human friendship. Jun 2009
• An analysis of home advantage in the top two Spanish professional football leagues. 30 May 2009
• Childhood abuse, avatar choices, and other risk factors associated with internet-initiated victimization of adolescent girls. 30 May 2009
• Cooperative courtship: helping friends raise and raze relationship barriers. 17 May 2009
• Sorority participation and sexual assault risk. 17 May 2009
• Health risks for older US adolescents in foster care: the significance of important others' health behaviours on youths' health and health behaviours. 29 Apr 2009
• Predictors of affect following treatment decision-making for prostate cancer: conversations, cognitive processing, and coping. 29 Apr 2009
• Therapeutic Assessment with children: a pilot study of treatment acceptability and outcome. 29 Apr 2009
• Providing family planning and reproductive healthcare to Canadian immigrants: perceptions of healthcare providers. 29 Apr 2009
• Why my classmates drink: drinking motives of classroom peers as predictors of individual drinking motives and alcohol use in adolescence -- a mediational model. 29 Apr 2009
• Relationships between social norms, social network characteristics, and HIV risk behaviors in Thailand and the United States. 29 Apr 2009
• Childhood depressive symptoms and adolescent cigarette use: a six-year longitudinal study controlling for peer relations correlates. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Social Facilitation'

Definition: Any enhancement of a motivated behavior in which individuals do the same thing with some degree of mutual stimulation and consequent coordination.

Descriptor UI: D012932

Alternative terms: Social Facilitation; Facilitation, Social; Facilitations, Social; Social Facilitations;

Tree Number: F01.145.813.655;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: human & animal; no qualif