L. J. Titus

L. J. Titus

L. J. Titus is a researcher and co-author of the 1983 meta-analysis of social facilitation.

Who they are

L. J. Titus is a researcher and co-author of the 1983 meta-analysis of social facilitation. On this site the name is tied to Social Facilitation, Body Doubling.

Key papers

Bond, C. F., & Titus, L. J. (1983). Social facilitation: A meta-analysis of 241 studies. Psychological Bulletin, 94(2), 265-292.

Key ideas

Social Facilitation: The finding that having an audience improves performance on tasks you've mastered and hurts performance on tasks that are hard or unfamiliar.

Body Doubling: Working alongside another person who is busy with their own task, in the room or on video, to help a task get started and finished.


Sources

  1. Bond, C. F., & Titus, L. J. (1983). Social facilitation: A meta-analysis of 241 studies. Psychological Bulletin, 94(2), 265-292.