Social Facilitation Effects in Shopping Behavior
unobtrusive observation comparing time in store and load size for lone against group shoppers. Groups spent longer in the store and bought larger loads, and the larger loads held up with shopping time controlled. Women and older people spent longer and bought more than men and younger people. Stated frame: social facilitation. The only direct observational evidence in the file that company changes what leaves the shop; it is from 1992 and it is correlational, and the article says both. Author order at the Crossref item record: Sommer first, Wynes second, Brinkley third
unobtrusive observation comparing time in store and load size for lone against group shoppers. Groups spent longer in the store and bought larger loads, and the larger loads held up with shopping time controlled. Women and older people spent longer and bought more than men and younger people. Stated frame: social facilitation. The only direct observational evidence in the file that company changes what leaves the shop; it is from 1992 and it is correlational, and the article says both. Author order at the Crossref item record: Sommer first, Wynes second, Brinkley third
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FURTHER VERIFIED. Sommer, R., Wynes, M., & Brinkley, G. (1992). Social Facilitation Effects in Shopping Behavior. Environment and Behavior, 24(3), 285-297. doi:10.1177/0013916592243001.