Norman Triplett conducted what is widely regarded as social…

Norman Triplett conducted what is widely regarded as social psychology’s first experiment. He found that children tended to perform a relatively easy task better while in the presence of another child doing the same task. This finding set the stage for research on 

Recall that Ed Diener and his colleagues monitored almost th…

Recall that Ed Diener and his colleagues monitored almost thirty homes throughout the city of Seattle on Halloween night. They recorded whether each trick-or-treater arrived alone or in a group. The researchers also randomly asked some children arriving alone and some arriving in groups to provide their names and addresses. The results of this study showed that children were more likely to take more treats than they were supposed to if they arrived ________ and if they were ________.