Interpersonal synchrony increases prosocial behavior in infants
| Autor: | Laura K. Cirelli, Kathleen M. Einarson, Laurel J. Trainor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Movement Statistics as Topic Interpersonal communication Musical Altruism 050105 experimental psychology Key (music) Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Interpersonal relationship 0302 clinical medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Interpersonal Relations Social Behavior media_common Interpersonal compatibility Analysis of Variance Movement (music) 05 social sciences Infant Prosocial behavior Acoustic Stimulation Infant Behavior Auditory Perception Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Developmental science. 17(6) |
| ISSN: | 1467-7687 |
| Popis: | Adults who move together to a shared musical beat synchronously as opposed to asynchronously are subsequently more likely to display prosocial behaviors toward each other. The development of musical behaviors during infancy has been described previously, but the social implications of such behaviors in infancy have been little studied. In Experiment 1, each of 48 14-month-old infants was held by an assistant and gently bounced to music while facing the experimenter, who bounced either in-synchrony or out-of-synchrony with the way the infant was bounced. The infants were then placed in a situation in which they had the opportunity to help the experimenter by handing objects to her that she had ‘accidently’ dropped. We found that 14-month-old infants were more likely to engage in altruistic behavior and help the experimenter after having been bounced to music in synchrony with her, compared to infants who were bounced to music asynchronously with her. The results of Experiment 2, using anti-phase bouncing, suggest that this is due to the contingency of the synchronous movements as opposed to movement symmetry. These findings support the hypothesis that interpersonal motor synchrony might be one key component of musical engagement that encourages social bonds among group members, and suggest that this motor synchrony to music may promote the very early development of altruistic behavior. |
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