Collective music listening: Movement energy is enhanced by groove and visual social cues.

ABSTRACT: The regularity of musical beat makes it a powerful stimulus promoting movement synchrony among people. Synchrony can increase interpersonal trust, affiliation, and cooperation. Musical pieces can be classified according to the quality of groove; the higher the groove, the more it induces the desire to move. We investigated questions related to collective music-listening among 33 participants in an experiment conducted in a naturalistic yet acoustically controlled setting of a research concert hall with motion tracking. First, does higher groove music induce (1) movement with more energy and (2) higher interpersonal movement coordination? Second, does visual social information manipulated by having eyes open or eyes closed also affect energy and coordination? Participants list

SUBMITTER: Dotov D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8107509 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature