Talk:Social inhibition

Summary of Content

The existing article on Social Inhibition briefly talks about social inhibition being an either conscious or subconscious constraint that an individual places on themselves in social situations. The article explains that we can see this constraint manifest in either behavior or appearance. The article lists potential reasons for social inhibition, and mentions the difference between the behaviors of a person with low inhibition and a person with high inhibition. The article also briefly lists some potential benefits of social inhibition and factors that can reduce or heighten inhibitions.

The improved article will build upon these basic and brief points listed in the article already. We will break it down into subheadings such as, conscious and unconscious reasons for inhibition, the ways social inhibitions manifests in our behaviors and appearances, reasons for social inhibition, which will include subcategories such as fearing activity and fearing social disapproval, how social inhibitions serve social functions, and finally the factors that can reduce and heighten social inhibitions.

To execute this plan we will break down the subheadings in two ways, one partner will be writing the sections on conscious and unconscious reasons for inhibition, the way social inhibitions manifest in our behaviors and appearances, and fearing activity as a reason for social inhibition. The other partner will be responsible for fearing social disapproval as a reason for social inhibition, social inhibitions serving social functions, and factors that reduce and heighten social inhibitions. LSanford26 (talk) 17:31, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Feedback on summary

I think this plan is the logical next step for improving this article. However, you may find in your research that there are additional sub-topics that are relevant. I'd also like to see a bit more detail about exactly what topics would fit into each subtopic. Gseidman (talk) 19:02, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Preliminary bibliography

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LSanford26 (talk) 19:27, 3 October 2013 (UTC) VSmith001 (talk) 19:39, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Feedback on references

These references are on topic, but you want to be careful not to make your article too broad and providing only superficial and very limited coverage of a wide variety of subtopics that fall into this general topic. Right now, there are often times where there is really only one reference on a particular topic. If you want to build a section around that topic, you need more references for that topic. You also want to be careful about not writing on topics that are already represented on Wikipedia in other articles. For example, you have an article dealing with social facilitation and social inhibition. You want to be careful not to end up with a whole section where you're talking about social facilitation when the topic is already covered.Gseidman (talk) 21:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Peer Review

Content- I think so far there is a lot of good content and subtopics. I actually found this information and content very interesting. I am sure there is a lot of information on this topic and once you get it all put together I think it will be very informational and interesting.

Organization- As far as what is up on the page right now, the only organizational thing I could think of was trying to split up the last group of information:Reducing Social Inhibition. I would maybe try making each "reducer" its own subtopic under that heading as long as there is enough information on each "reducer" that you could write at least a paragraph under it as a subtopic.

Clarity-The writing seems to flow well to me. It is easy information to understand and I think that the information from the references was translated well into one for the article page.

Tone-I didn't feel any bias opinions or anything that would lead the reader to go one way or another. I think all of the content was neutral and whoever the reader is would most likely feel the same way.

Referencing Format-I am not quite sure how to do this or why this would happen, but I think there is supposed to be only one reference for reference number, instead of the references being repeated at the end of the article. I think as long as you fix those formatting issues, then everything will be fine.

Reference Use-All the citations made within the article were relevant and the articles that you have used so far go along well with your topic. I'm sure there will be more references used as your article expands, but so far i think the few that you have are very cohesive with your topic and what information you are trying to get across through your page. BMcInerney8792 (talk) 16:56, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Peer Review

Content: I thought that the content for this article was appropriate and very interesting. For instance, I found the section on how to reduce inhibitions very interesting. I also liked how you talked about the effects of alcohol on women and why some of them of it use it to feel freer.

Organization: The division and or sections of the article are very well organized. I especially like how the treatment section listed a variety of tests that are used in order to test Social inhibition.

Clarity: I think the article is very easy to understand. I only added a few commas and the word "However" in one of your sentences. Therefore, other than those issues, I think that your article is very clear. (Just to let you know, when I made the grammar changes, I accidentally called it grammer instead of grammar.)

Tone: The tone of the article seemed completely neutral to me. I did not find any expressions of one's own opinions.

Referencing format/use: I did not find any issues with your references and I did not find any insufficient use of references.

L.Warren18 (talk) 23:23, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

A few comments on writing and organization

In the lead paragraph, the phrase “a subject matter for discussion” is somewhat awkward/confusing. Also, the use of the word components in the fourth sentence does not make sense – Social inhibition is related to components of what? Does the author mean that social inhibition has several components? This is the assumption that I’m making based on the rest of the sentence and the sentence fragment that follows, but this needs to be clarified. The phrase “the other side of the spectrum” is misused. What spectrum is the author referring to?

It seems like social inhibition can refer to a set of ordinary behaviors whereby certain situations are inhibiting, but then it can also refer to a pattern of disordered behavior. This is indicated by the lead paragraph, but then the next section of the article is "measures and treatments", which seems like a strange place to start. First, measures and treatments seem to me like two separate topics. Second, the disorder aspect of social inhibition has not been fully described, so jumping to treatments right away does not make sense. I find this approach especially confusing, given that the first subheading is treatments, then reducing inhibitions (via things like alcohol) is the next subheading. That first section sets up social inhibition as something bad, a clinical disorder, then suddenly we’re talking about how to treat the disorder by getting drunk? It just doesn’t follow. This is occurring on part because the organization of the article does not make a clear distinction between psychologically maladaptive social inhibition and everyday social inhibition. The distinction between these two aspects of social inhibition needs to serve as an organizing principle for the whole article and needs to be elaborated on extensively.

Citations: When citing the same article multiple times, it would only appear once in the references list. If you are using the old wiki-mark-up, you need to name the reference by using the “ref name” tag and then using that same name when you list the reference again: Help:List-defined references. If you are using the beta editor, whenever you click to add a reference, it will show you your list of previously used references, so you just have to find the reference you want the existing list Gseidman (talk) 22:16, 1 December 2013 (UTC)