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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 …

Authors

Dotov D; Bosnyak D; Trainor LJ

Journal

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 74, No. 6, pp. 1037–1053

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

June 2021

DOI

10.1177/1747021821991793

ISSN

1747-0218

Labels

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

McMaster Research Centers and Institutes (RCI)