Paweł Strojny

Paweł Strojny

Paweł Strojny is a researcher and first author of the 2020 paper on social facilitation with virtual agents.

Who they are

Paweł Strojny is a researcher and first author of the 2020 paper on social facilitation with virtual agents. On this site the name is tied to Social Facilitation, Body Doubling.

Key papers

Strojny, P., Dużmańska-Misiarczyk, N., Lipp, N., & Strojny, A. (2020). Moderators of social facilitation effect in virtual reality: Co-presence and realism of virtual agents. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1252.

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. Strojny, P., Dużmańska-Misiarczyk, N., Lipp, N., & Strojny, A. (2020). Moderators of social facilitation effect in virtual reality: Co-presence and realism of virtual agents. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1252.