Social psychologists believe that human behavior is determined by both a person’s characteristics and the social situation. They also believe that the social situation is frequently a stronger influence on behavior than are a person’s characteristics. Social psychology is largely the study of the social situation.

Because He believes that if citizens disobey the law, that liberty would break down. According to Montesquieu, law is the one that prevents a civilization from doing what most animals in the wild do. without the law, the strong would have the total freedom to abuse the weak.

Social facilitation refers to the finding that people sometimes show an increased level of effort as a result of the real, imagined, or implied presence of others. There are two types of social facilitation: co-action effects and audience effect.

An Audience effect is a change in behaviour caused by being observed by another person, or the belief that one is being observed by another person. Thus, social facilitation or mere presence effects are not the same as a true audience effect.

In a meta-analysis, Bond and Titus (1983) looked at the results of over 200 studies using over 20,000 research participants and found that the presence of others did significantly increase the rate of performance on simple tasks and decrease both the rate and the quality of performance on complex tasks.

Social facilitation refers to how the presence of others helps us improve and perform better. The opposite effect is called social inhibition. When a person isn’t familiar with the task or when it requires significant concentration and involvement, the presence of others negatively influences performance.

When a person is motivated and able to invest high effort in making a judgment about an issue or object, attitude change can occur due to characteristics of his or her thoughts (e.g., whether the thoughts are favorable or unfavorable), his or her estimation that good or bad outcomes will be tied to the attitude object.