Social Facilitation 👥⚡
- Definition: Audience can IMPROVE performance! 📈
- Zajonc's Theory (1965): Audience increases arousal! ⬆️
Effect Depends on Skill Level 🎯
- Skilled athletes 🏅: Audience = BETTER performance! ✅
- Less skilled athletes 👶: Audience = WORSE performance! ❌
- Why? Arousal triggers dominant response! 🔔
Home Advantage 🏠✅
- Real effect in: Basketball 🏀, Baseball ⚾, Football 🏈, Hockey 🏒, Soccer ⚽
What Creates Home Advantage? 📈
- Crowd size 👥: Bigger = more advantage!
- Crowd intimacy 🤗: Closer fans = more impact!
- Crowd density 📊: Packed stadium = stronger effect!
- Hostile crowd 😤: Hurts visiting team!
- Familiarity 🏟️: Know your home court!
- Confidence 💪: Athletes believe home = advantage!
When Home Court is DISADVANTAGE! 🏠❌
- High expectations 📈: Too much pressure! 😰
- Supportive crowd 📣: Can cause TOO MUCH arousal! ⬆️⬆️
- Athletes "press" 😣: Try too hard → make mistakes!
- Execution suffers! 📉
Audience Characteristics 👁️📊
- Size matters! (bigger = more effect) 📈
- Closeness matters! (closer = more effect) 👀
- How full the stadium is matters! 🏟️
Key Takeaways 🔑
- Audience helps SKILLED athletes! 🏅✅
- Audience hurts BEGINNERS! 👶❌
- Home advantage is REAL! 🏠📈
- But sometimes home = TOO MUCH pressure! 😰
- High-quality teams benefit most at home! 🏆