The Influence of Group Singing on Trust and Cooperation

Anshel, Anat; Kipper, David A.

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“…When adults walk, row, tap, dance, or sing in synchrony with one another, affiliative behaviors such as trust, cooperation, and ratings of likeability are encouraged (Anshel & Kipper, 1988;Hove & Risen, 2009;Reddish, Fischer, & Bulbulia, 2013;Tarr, Launay, Cohen, & Dunbar, 2015;Valdesolo, Ouyang, & DesSteno, 2010;Weinstein, Launay, Pearce, Dunbar, & Stewart, 2015;Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009). 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).…”

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“…In musical contexts, adults who sing together later rate each other as more trustworthy (Anshel & Kipper, 1988), are more cooperative (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009), experience increased pain thresholds (a proxy for endorphin release), and experience feelings of enhanced group cohesion (Weinstein et al, 2015). Similar results are seen when adults dance together in synchrony.…”

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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

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Section: Oving In Time With Others Ormentioning

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Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Cirelli¹,

Wan²,

Spinelli³

et al. 2017

Music Perception

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“…Studies have shown that singing together can increase cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game (Anshel & Kipper, 1988) and a public goods game (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009), though the effect can be sensitive to experimental conditions (e.g. Kurzban, 2001).…”

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Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation

Manson

Bryant

Gervais

et al. 2013

Evolution and Human Behavior

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During conversation, interlocutors coordinate their behavior on many levels. Two distinct forms of behavioral coordination have been empirically linked with affiliation and cooperation during or following face-to-face interaction: behavior matching and interpersonal synchrony. Only the latter form constitutes behavioral entrainment involving a coupling between independent oscillators. We present the first study of the association between spontaneously occurring behavioral coordination and postinteraction economic game-play. Triads of same-sexed strangers conversed for 10 min, after which each participant played an unannounced one-shot prisoner's dilemma (PD) toward each co-participant. When dyads had higher language style matching scores (LSM: Gonzales et al., 2010), the individuals evaluated each other more positively, but they were no more likely to cooperate in the PD. However, when dyads' speech rates (mean syllable duration) converged more strongly from the beginning to the end of the conversation, they were more likely to cooperate in the PD, despite no effect on interpersonal evaluations. Speech rate convergence, a form of rhythmic entrainment, could benefit interlocutors by mutually reducing cognitive processing during interaction.We suggest that spontaneous, temporally-based behavioral coordination might facilitate prosocial behavior when the joint cooperative effort is itself perceived as a form of coordination.

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“…There is some empirical evidence supporting this hypothesis. Anshel and Kipper (1988) found that group singing of popular songs enhanced trust and cooperation among adult men.…”

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Music and dance as a coalition signaling system

Hagen

Bryant

2003

Hum Nat

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Evidence suggests that humans might have neurological specializations for music processing, but a compelling adaptationist account of music and dance is lacking. The sexual selection hypothesis cannot easily account for the widespread performance of music and dance in groups (especially synchronized performances), and the social bonding hypothesis has severe theoretical difficulties. Humans are unique among the primates in their ability to form cooperative alliances between groups in the absence of consanguineal ties. We propose that this unique form of social organization is predicated on music and dance. Music and dance may have evolved as a coalition signaling system that could, among other things, credibly communicate coalition quality, thus permitting meaningful cooperative relationships between groups. This capability may have evolved from coordinated territorial defense signals that are common in many social species, including chimpanzees. We present a study in which manipulation of music synchrony significantly altered subjects' perceptions of music quality, and in which subjects' perceptions of music quality were correlated with their perceptions of coalition quality, supporting our hypothesis. Our hypothesis also has implications for the evolution of psychological mechanisms underlying cultural production in other domains such as food

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The Influence of Group Singing on Trust and Cooperation

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Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation

Music and dance as a coalition signaling system

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