Recall that Robert Zajonc and his colleagues (1969)employed the lowly cockroach in their studies of social facilitation.In the presence of other cockroaches,roaches would run faster down a straightaway to escape a bright light than they would alone,but took longer in the presence of a cockroach audience when the escape route was more complicated (i.e.,when they had to run a maze).These findings support the idea that

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The findings support the idea that the presence of other members of a species elicits the most dominant response, as the cockroaches ran faster in simple tasks but slower in complex tasks when observed by others.

Recall That Robert Zajonc and His Colleagues (1969)employed the Lowly