sander's distraction-conflict explanation of social facilitation suggests
Distraction-conflict It has been argued that the distraction-attention theory suggests that "distraction during a simple task will improve performance if it triggers attentional conflict".[3] As with Zajonc's theory of social facilitation, the distraction-conflict theory observes that an individual's performance on simple tasks is facilitated by arousal, whereas an individual's performance on complex tasks is hindered by this same arousal. For this to occur, the level of distraction must be related to performance so that benefits of increased drive outweigh the costs of disruption.[2] Distraction-conflict, as well as social uncertainty and self-attention, may "provoke resource overload because they absorb attentional capacity".[4]