Still want to help? Interpersonal coordination's effects on helping behaviour after a 24 hour delay

Cross, Liam; Michael, John; Wilsdon, Luke; Henson, A

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103062

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“…Consistent with the notion that coordinated movement may lead to greater prosociality as mediated by deindividuation levels, it has been reported that two experiments showing that synchrony not only increases the odds that a participant will be willing to help others, but that their likelihood of helping is directly related to their reported levels of deindividuation [14]. That is, the greater the level of deindividuation evoked by synchronous movement, the more likely participants are to offer help.…”

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“…An example of this is that synchronous walking, or cup waving and singing, results in participants making more cooperative choices in subsequent economic games, even if such choices come at a real financial cost to them [13]. Other research has shown that after moving synchronously together, participants are more likely to help their co-actors, even some time after the initial coordination task [14], as well as to conform and obey their requests [15,16], and show better memories for co-actors [17][18][19].…”

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Lost in the crowd: Imagining walking in synchrony with a crowd increases affiliation and deindividuation

2021

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Moving in time with others—interpersonal coordination—increases affiliation, helping behaviours and gives rise to a host of other prosocial outcomes. Recent research suggests that merely imagining coordination may lead to similar social effects. In the present study, participants were asked to imagine walking with a crowd in a coordinated (versus uncoordinated) way to explore the effects of imagined coordination on individuals’ perceptions of themselves and the crowd. Imagined coordination led to greater levels of deindividuation and affiliation. That is, participants were less likely to report seeing themselves as unique individuals, instead viewing themselves as a part of a group (deindividuation) and more likely to report a sense of emotional closeness (affiliation) with the imagined group. Deindividuation partially mediated the effect of imagined coordination on affiliation. This work establishes that imagined synchrony can be employed online to foster prosocial attitudes towards groups of people, and that a process of deindividuation might mediate this effect.

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Lost in the crowd: Imagining walking in synchrony with a crowd increases affiliation and deindividuation

2021

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“…Cross et al (2017) also showed that imagining coordinating leads individuals to view themselves in more interdependent, or group level terms, rather than individual terms. Finally Cross et al (2020) showed that changes in viewing oneself and ones co-actor in individual versus common group terms mediated coordination's effect on helping behaviour. Thus, it appears that coordination's social effects are particularly tied to group dynamics.…”

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“…One possible means of reducing negative stereotypes may be to have people engage in coordinated movement with individuals from disenfranchised groups, such as walking in synchrony with them. This is supported by behavioural studies which show that interpersonal coordination can to lead to greater pro-sociality amongst co-actors by increasing rapport (Hove & Risen, 2009), affiliation (Reddish, Fischer, & Bulbulia, 2013), cooperation (Cross, Wilson, & Golonka, 2016) and helping (Cross, Micheal, Wilsdon, Henson, & Atherton, 2020) amongst those who take part. Even imagining coordinating has been shown to lead to some of the same social consequences as actually coordinating (i.e.…”

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Walking in My Shoes: Imagined Synchrony Improves Attitudes Towards Out-groups

Atherton

2020

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People are prone to dividing others into the categories of ‘us’ and ‘them’. This can be particularly detrimental to minorities who may experience social exclusion, prejudice, and reduced access to equal opportunities. One method of improving intergroup relations is to create opportunities for contact. Common contact interventions have members of different groups meet and engage in conversation. There are also non-verbal embodied intergroup activities that produce the same effects. Previous work has shown that the pro-social effects of coordination may be linked to whether co-actors are classed as in or out-group members. The current study explored whether imagining walking in synchrony with in- or out-group members changed majority members’ attitudes towards those individuals. Imagining walking in synchrony fostered greater increases in empathy and decreases in negative attitudes only towards minority group members following imagined coordination (not in-groups). Implications and future directions are discussed.

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“…All of this work has relied on explicit self-report measures of similarity, closeness and connectedness between co-actors or pictorial ratings of overlap using the Inclusion of Other in Self scale (IoS) 24 . Similarly, there is also some evidence that seeing oneself and one's partner less as an individual and more as a member of a group may mediate the relationship between synchrony and pro-sociality 25 .…”

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Intentional synchronisation affects automatic imitation and source memory

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2021

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Acting in synchrony is a fundamental part of many social interactions and can have pro-social consequences. Explanations for this relationship were investigated here using implicit measures of imitation (automatic imitation task) and memory (preference overlap task). In Study 1, participants performed an intentional synchronisation task where they moved sliders in or out of time with another person while a third person observed. Those who had moved in synchrony showed a stronger tendency to imitate their partner’s actions than those who had moved in a non-synchronous way. Similarly, coordinated partners were also more likely to share object preferences. Results also showed that rather than memory blurring between co-actors, participants had improved memories for the self. Study 2 exchanged intentional for incidental coordination (coordinating with a synchronous metronome). None of the findings from Study 1 replicated when synchronisation was incidental rather than intentional, suggesting that having a shared goal may be critical for triggering effects of synchronisation on imitation tendencies and memory. Together these findings favour explanations related to changes in social categorisation over representational overlap between co-actors.

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Still want to help? Interpersonal coordination's effects on helping behaviour after a 24 hour delay

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Lost in the crowd: Imagining walking in synchrony with a crowd increases affiliation and deindividuation

Lost in the crowd: Imagining walking in synchrony with a crowd increases affiliation and deindividuation

Walking in My Shoes: Imagined Synchrony Improves Attitudes Towards Out-groups

Intentional synchronisation affects automatic imitation and source memory

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