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

ABSTRACT: 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 wh

SUBMITTER: Cirelli LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4240967 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature