Rowers' high: behavioural synchrony is correlated with elevated pain thresholds

Cohen, Emma; Ejsmond-Frey, Robin; Knight, Nicola; Dunbar, Robin

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0670

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“…Synchronous tapping, but not asynchronous tapping, generated higher affiliation ratings, but only when the synchrony was with another person, and not just experienced (i.e., tapping to a metronome) (Hove & Risen, 2009). Synchronized training in competitive rowers resulted in increased endorphin release (Cohen et al, 2010), suggesting a proximate mechanism motivating this kind of behavioral coordination. Behavioral entrainment is highly detectable, and can impact people's perceptions of the affiliation between the synchronizers.…”

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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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Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation

Manson

Bryant

Gervais

et al. 2013

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…In the experiment by Tunçgenç and colleagues (2015) with 12-month-old infants, it was found that synchronous movement in a nonmusical context influenced infant preferential reaching. In adults, increased pain thresholds were found following rowing synchronously with others versus alone (Cohen, Ejsmond-Frey, Knight, & Dunbar, 2010). Cooperation is encouraged by walking synchronously versus asynchronously (Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).…”

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Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Cirelli¹,

Wan²,

Spinelli³

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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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“…We also know that activities such as laughter, singing and dancing all lead to an enhanced sense of bonding towards those with whom one does these activities Pearce et al 2015;Tarr et al 2015Tarr et al , 2016Manninen et al, submitted), mainly because they trigger the endorphin system in the brain that underpins primate social bonding (Panksepp et al 1997;Curley and Keverne 2005;Dunbar 2010;Machin and Dunbar 2011). Since endorphins are involved in the control of feeding (Bakshi and Kelley 1993;Zhang and Kelley 2000;DiFeliceantonio et al 2012), the very fact of eating might itself trigger the endorphin system and promote bonding, and doing so socially may lead to the same kind of enhanced endorphin effects from behavioural synchrony that have been noted in physical exercise (Cohen et al 2010). Hence, people who eat often with others might be expected to have larger social networks and be happier and more satisfied with their lives, as well as being more engaged with their communities.…”

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Breaking Bread: the Functions of Social Eating

Dunbar

2017

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Communal eating, whether in feasts or everyday meals with family or friends, is a human universal, yet it has attracted surprisingly little evolutionary attention. I use data from a UK national stratified survey to test the hypothesis that eating with others provides both social and individual benefits. I show that those who eat socially more often feel happier and are more satisfied with life, are more trusting of others, are more engaged with their local communities, and have more friends they can depend on for support. Evening meals that result in respondents feeling closer to those with whom they eat involve more people, more laughter and reminiscing, as well as alcohol. A path analysis suggests that the causal direction runs from eating together to bondedness rather than the other way around. I suggest that social eating may have evolved as a mechanism for facilitating social bonding.

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Rowers' high: behavioural synchrony is correlated with elevated pain thresholds

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Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation

Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Breaking Bread: the Functions of Social Eating

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