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This study investigated audience status as a manipulation of evaluation apprehension and its effects upon free recall performance. Sixty subjects were randomly assigned to one of four audience conditions (Alone, Experimenter, Peer, and Experimenter and Peer present). They studied three lists of 12 Japanese nonsence syllables for a single presentation. The experimental manipulations were introduced after the first recall. Recall was tested for immediate and delayed periods. In contrast with the Alone condition, three social conditions inhibited the recall behaviors. This social impairment of recall reflects an audience-induced reticence. The results are discussed in terms of the drive and self-presentational theories of social facilitation.
