Abstract
Social psychology has long been believed that only the majority could influence the individual or the minorities. The French social psychologist, Serge Moscovici, through his experimental studies, has introduced a new location, that is rich in developments and which by no means is negligible. Ever since it emerged as a field of study, social psychology has studied the social influence on attitudes, behaviors and opinions of individuals. Indeed, one can say that the birth of this branch of psychological science has its reasons to the study of social pressure on people. The initial studies were conducted by Norman Triplett in 1897. In fact, he had turned an experimental observation of the discrepancy of performance of athletes according to a different social situation. The researcher revealed the phenomenon, later called social facilitation, in which people improve their performance when they are in a social context, compared to the occasions on which the pressure of the other fails. However, the influence of society does not always have positive effects: in 1880 Maximilien Ringelmann, a French professor, noted that, under certain circumstances, the productivity of a group might have been less efficient than individually. We look into the various aspects of this research on this document.
