Group Music Training and Children's Prosocial Skills

Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Corrigall, Kathleen A.; Dys, Sebastian P.; Malti, Tina

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141449

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“…Even 4-year-old children who play together in a musical versus a nonmusical way are later more helpful and cooperative with one another (Kirschner & Tomasello, 2010). Also, children with poor prosocial skills who took part in weekly group music classes encouraging high levels of interpersonal synchrony, showed larger boosts in self-reported sympathy and prosociality compared to controls (Schellenberg, Corrigall, Dys, & Malti, 2015).…”

Section: Oving In Time With Others Ormentioning

confidence: 97%

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Cirelli¹,

Wan²,

Spinelli³

et al. 2017

Music Perception

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MOVING IN SYNCHRONY WITH OTHERS ENCOURAGESprosocial behavior. Adults who walk, sing, or tap together are later more likely to be cooperative, helpful, and rate each other as likeable. Our previous studies demonstrated that interpersonal synchrony encourages helpfulness even in 14-month-old infants. However, in those studies, infants always experienced interpersonal synchrony in a musical context. Here we investigated whether synchronous movement in a nonmusical context has similar effects on infant helpfulness. Fourteen-month-olds were bounced gently while the experimenter faced the infant and bounced with them either in-or out-of-synchrony. In contrast to our previous studies, instead of listening to music during this interpersonal movement phase while being bounced, infants listened to nonrhythmic nature sounds. We then tested infant prosociality directed toward the experimenter. Results showed that synchronous bouncing still encouraged more prosociality than asynchronous bouncing, despite the absence of music. However, helping was more delayed and fussiness rates were much higher than in our previous studies with music. Thus music may not be necessary for interpersonal synchrony to influence infant helpfulness, but the presence of music may act as a mood regulator or distractor to help keep infants happy and allow them to fully experience the effects of synchronous movement.

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Section: Oving In Time With Others Ormentioning

confidence: 97%

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Cirelli¹,

Wan²,

Spinelli³

et al. 2017

Music Perception

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“…Die Arbeitsgruppe von Schellenberg ging 2015 der Frage nach, ob das pädagogische Programm, "Ukulele im Klassenzimmer" 3 tatsächlich prosoziale Fähigkeiten stärkt (23). In diesem Programm musiziert eine Schulklasse zusammen auf Ukulelen, singt und lernt elementare Musiktheorie einschließlich Gehörbildung, Notation und Rhythmus.…”

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Macht Musizieren wirklich schlau?

Spitzer¹,

Kammer²

2018

Nervenheilkunde

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ZusammenfassungSeit Platon wird vermutet, dass aktives Musizieren positive Auswirkungen auf affektive, kognitive und soziale Fähigkeiten junger Menschen hat. Man unterscheidet heute nahe und ferne Transfereffekte. Während nahe Effekte auditive und davon abgeleitet sprachliche Fähigkeiten betreffen, spricht man von fernen Transfereffekten, wenn es um allgemeinere Fähigkeiten geht. In den letzten 20 Jahren wurden eine Reihe empirischer Untersuchungen zu nahen als auch zu fernen Transfereffekten publiziert. Wir stellen exemplarisch Ergebnissen dieser Studien vor und diskutieren den gesellschaftlichen Stellenwert der gefundenen positiven Auswirkungen aktiven Musizierens.

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“…Much more broadly, while the present research focuses on listening and responding to songs, the joint production of music—through choirs (e.g., Stephens, ), bands (e.g., Kirschner & Tomasello, ) or children's lesson‐groups (Schellenberg et al, ), for example—warrants mention as an important way through which organizations often use music to successfully enhance bonds among members. Our interests focus on the relevance of music listening because it can be done in a workplace setting relatively passively and without disruption to regular activities such as talking.…”

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The sound of cooperation: Musical influences on cooperative behavior

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SummaryMusic as an environmental aspect of professional workplaces has been closely studied with respect to consumer behavior while sparse attention has been given to its relevance for employee behavior. In this article, we focus on the influence of music upon cooperative behavior within decision‐making groups. Based on results from two extended 20‐round public goods experiments, we find that happy music significantly and positively influences cooperative behavior. We also find a significant positive association between mood and cooperative behavior. Consequently, while our studies provide partial support for the relevance of affect in relation to cooperation within groups, we also show an independently important function of happy music that fits with a theory of synchronous and rhythmic activity as a social lubricant. More generally, our findings indicate that music and perhaps other atmospheric variables that are designed to prime consumer behavior might have comparably important effects for employees and consequently warrant closer investigation. Copyright © 2016 The Authors Journal of Organizational Behavior Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Group Music Training and Children's Prosocial Skills

Cited by 147 publications

References 61 publications

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Macht Musizieren wirklich schlau?

The sound of cooperation: Musical influences on cooperative behavior

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