If They Move in Sync, They Must Feel in Sync: Movement Synchrony Leads to Attributions of Rapport and Entitativity

Lakens, Daniël; Stel, Mariëlle

doi:10.1521/soco.2011.29.1.1

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“…When a person's movements are temporally aligned with those of another, the perception of self and other might closely overlap, interfering with the ability to differentiate between goals involving the self and the other [8,35]. Expanding this hypothesis is the argument that the main function of synchrony involves increasing perceived similarity or entitativity [14,36]. A second idea is that prosocial behaviour resulting from synchronous activities arises from greater mutual attentiveness [10,37].…”

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Fourteen-month-old infants use interpersonal synchrony as a cue to direct helpfulness

Cirelli

Wan

Trainor

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Musical behaviours such as dancing, singing and music production, which require the ability to entrain to a rhythmic beat, encourage high levels of interpersonal coordination. Such coordination has been associated with increased group cohesion and social bonding between group members. Previously, we demonstrated that this association influences even the social behaviour of 14-month-old infants. Infants were significantly more likely to display helpfulness towards an adult experimenter following synchronous bouncing compared with asynchronous bouncing to music. The present experiment was designed to determine whether interpersonal synchrony acts as a cue for 14-month-olds to direct their prosocial behaviours to specific individuals with whom they have experienced synchronous movement, or whether it acts as a social prime, increasing prosocial behaviour in general. Consistent with the previous results, infants were significantly more likely to help an experimenter following synchronous versus asynchronous movement with this person. Furthermore, this manipulation did not affect infant's behaviour towards a neutral stranger, who was not involved in any movement experience. This indicates that synchronous bouncing acts as a social cue for directing prosociality. These results have implications for how musical engagement and rhythmic synchrony affect social behaviour very early in development.

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Section: (B) Interpersonal Synchrony Encourages Prosocial Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fourteen-month-old infants use interpersonal synchrony as a cue to direct helpfulness

Cirelli

Wan

Trainor

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

135

111

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Psychological Data from an Exploration of the Rapport / Synchrony Interplay Using Motion Energy Analysis

Nelson

Grahe

Ramseyer

et al. 2014

Journal of Open Psychology Data

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The synchronization of physical movements between organisms is critical to exercising one's influence on peers, initiating social learning, establishing group solidarity, and even facilitating pro-social behaviour [1,2,3,4]. Indeed, this behavioural synchrony maintains a distinct social importance, as it functions like a "social glue" that helps to solidify relationships between both humans and animals. further posited that this coordination is a visible manifestation of dyadic rapport development, and subsequent research supports their prediction [6,7]. Because situational conditions impact rapport-development between partners [8], it is plausible that subsequent displays of synchrony might be concurrently affected; accordingly, our investigation sought to explore how contextual and participant characteristics influence this rapport / synchrony interplay.Grahe and Sherman [8] proposed that altering perceptions of dyadic responsibility during a mutual task affected communication between both dyad members; unsurprisingly, these subsequent changes to communication efforts might then influence self-reported feelings of rapport [9,10]. More specifically, Dunbar's [9] dyadic power theory posits that as an individual's perception of responsibility increases, their likelihood of communicating using dominant behavior is subsequently heightened. Dominant communication displays hinder rapportbuilding, and thus Study 1 examined how perceptions of authority and the gender-specificity of an interdependent task (as gender scripts magnify self perceptions of social power [11]) influenced rapport development and nonverbal coordination.As mentioned above, gender socialization encourages men and women to rely on different nonverbal communication tendencies [12,13], and these tendencies may encourage or impede rapport development. For example, physical manifestations of positivity and attentiveness (two elements of Tickle-Degnen and Rosenthal's [5] theorized rapport construct) are more often observed in female same-sex dyads than in male-male pairings [14]. Women also appear more sensitive to rapport-facilitating actions when making judgments about dyadic exchanges [15]. Study 2 sought to determine if a dyad's sex makeup

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“…Moreover, much evidence shows there exists a link between motor processes in interpersonal coordination and intra-personal mental connectedness [4]. People tend to unconsciously coordinate their movement and match their postures during interaction, enhancing interpersonal affinity [5]. For example, activities involving motor coordination and synchrony with others (such as marching, singing and dancing) foster social attachment and thus increase cooperation among group members [6].…”

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Adaptive tracking control of a virtual player in the mirror game

Zhai

Alderisio

Tsaneva-Atanasova

et al. 2014

53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

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Abstract-The coordination of interpersonal rhythmic movements is of great significance due to its potential relevance to human motor rehabilitation. In this paper we consider the problem of designing a controller able to drive a virtual player (VP) capable of imitating and following a human player in the mirror game [1]. The classic nonlinear HakenKelso-Bunz (HKB) model is adopted to describe the social motor coordination between two players. An adaptive control algorithm is developed and implemented on the HKB model to drive the VP. It is proven that the position error between the VP driven by our control algorithm and the human player is upper bounded during the game. Finally, experiments are conducted on a prototype set-up in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed control algorithm and compare it with other existing algorithms.

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If They Move in Sync, They Must Feel in Sync: Movement Synchrony Leads to Attributions of Rapport and Entitativity

Cited by 275 publications

References 30 publications

Fourteen-month-old infants use interpersonal synchrony as a cue to direct helpfulness

Fourteen-month-old infants use interpersonal synchrony as a cue to direct helpfulness

Psychological Data from an Exploration of the Rapport / Synchrony Interplay Using Motion Energy Analysis

Adaptive tracking control of a virtual player in the mirror game

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