Correction: What Makes a Cafe Productive for Working: The Research
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Down Under Cafe
- Topic
- Coffee Culture
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 15 July 2026
The exact change
A 2018 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology extended this finding by showing that mere social presence, even without direct observation, increased self-regulation on cognitive tasks by a small but statistically significant margin.
Related research on social facilitation suggests that mere social presence, even without direct observation, can support self-regulation on cognitive tasks, though effect sizes vary across studies.
Suggested change
Related research on social facilitation suggests that mere social presence, even without direct observation, can support self-regulation on cognitive tasks, though effect sizes vary across studies.
Why this is better
3 issues fixed: Fabricated study citation. No 2018 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology study matching this description of 'mere social presence' increasing self-regulation could be verified via search. | Fabricated quote misattributed to Andrew Elliot, a real University of Rochester psychologist whose actual research area is achievement/approach-avoidance motivation, not social facilitation. No source for this quote or a 2019 'summary of social facilitation research' by him could be found. | Fabricated quote falsely attributed to Stephen Kaplan, misrepresenting his real 1995 research. Kaplan's actual paper (correctly listed in this article's own References section as published in Journal of Environmental Psychology) is about the restorative effects of NATURAL environments, not cafes. This quote invents cafe-specific language and misattributes the source journal as 'Environment and Behavior' instead of the paper's real journal.
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