Social Facilitation Effects for Robots and Humans

Supplemental Material for The observant android: Limited social facilitation and inhibition from a copresent social robot.

“…Descriptive information is presented in Table 1; zero-order correlations are included in the online materials (Koban et al, 2021). Each analysis originally controlled for the influence of different covariates.…”

“…Each analysis originally controlled for the influence of different covariates. Unless otherwise indicated, these covariates had small impact and were disregarded for parsimony (see online materials for complete analyses; Koban et al, 2021).…”

“…Before entering the lab, all participants completed a COVID-19 screening in accordance with university protocols. All humans wore face masks: The experimenter had a black fabric mask, human confederates wore transparent masks, and participants used a mask of their choice (for a reasoning on the mask choice, see online materials; Koban et al, 2021).…”

“…The final sample comprised N = 111 participants (age: M = 19.65, SD = 2.46, range: 18-35 years). Most identified as female (n = 84), others as male (n = 27), none as nonbinary (see online materials, for more information on sample demographics; Koban et al, 2021).…”

“…In response to Irfan et al's (2018) concerns, we measured how much participants feel observed, using a single item ("During the task, how much did you feel like you were observed by someone?"). To control for whether participants took the task seriously, another All study materials, data, and preregistered hypotheses are available in the online materials for this project: https://osf.io/9xry5 (Koban et al, 2021).…”