Cottrell et al. (1968) found that dominant responses were no more frequent among people working in the presence of blindfolded others than among people working alone. This finding is consistent with which theory of social facilitation?

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The evaluation apprehension theory suggests that the presence of others leads to increased arousal and dominant responses only when individuals feel they are being evaluated. Since the others were blindfolded, there was no evaluation apprehension, aligning with the findings.

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