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Robert Bolesław Zajonc (/ˈzaɪ.ənts/ ZY-ənts; [1] [2] Polish: [ˈzajɔnt͡s]; November 23, 1923 – December 3, 2008) was a Polish-born American social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social and cognitive processes.
The theory states distraction can be a source of social facilitation on simple tasks, as it can cause attentional conflict that can increase motivation which increases the drive proposed by Zajonc. On more complex and difficult tasks, however, the increase in drive is not enough to counteract the detrimental effects of distraction and therefore ...
Joseph LeDoux was born on December 7, 1949, in the Cajun Prairie town of Eunice, Louisiana, to Joseph E. "Boo" LeDoux, a traveling rodeo performer (bull rider) and butcher, and Priscilla Buller LeDoux. He attended St. Edmund's Elementary School and Eunice High School, graduating in 1967.
According to the research page, this research has the potential of resolving the still unresolved theory of six degrees of separation. [ 23 ] [ 35 ] Facebook's data team released two papers in November 2011 which document that amongst all Facebook users at the time of research (721 million users with 69 billion friendship links) there is an ...
The left-brain interpreter is a neuropsychological concept developed by the psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga and the neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux. [1] [2] It refers to the construction of explanations by the left brain hemisphere in order to make sense of the world by reconciling new information with what was known before. [3]
The rejection of Titchener's hypothesis spurred further research and the development of current theory. The scholar best known for developing the mere-exposure effect is Robert Zajonc. Before conducting his research, he observed that exposure to a novel stimulus initially elicits a fear/avoidance response in all organisms.
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The theory lost favor in the 20th century, but has regained popularity more recently due largely to theorists such as John T. Cacioppo, [74] Antonio Damasio, [75] Joseph E. LeDoux [76] and Robert Zajonc [77] who are able to appeal to neurological evidence. [78]