Working alone or in the presence of others: exploring social facilitation in baggage X-ray security screening tasks

• Published in: Ergonomics Vol. 58; no. 6; pp. 857 - 865
• Main Authors: Yu, Rui-feng, Wu, Xin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis 03.06.2015; Taylor & Francis LLC
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adolescent; Baggage; Human; Humans; Luggage; Male; Screening; Searching; Security; Security Measures; Simulation; Social Facilitation; Task Performance and Analysis; Tasks; threat detection; visual search; Work; work organisation; X-rays; Young Adult; threat detection; work organisation; social facilitation; visual search

This study investigated whether the mere presence of a human audience would evoke a social facilitation effect in baggage X-ray security screening tasks. A 2 (target presence: present vs. absent) ×  2 (task complexity: simple vs. complex) ×  2 (social presence: alone vs. human audience) within-subje...