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Imagined steps: mental simulation of coordinated rhythmic movements effects on pro-sociality
Cross, Liam Atherton, Gray Wilson, Andrew Golonka, Sabrina
Cross, Liam
Atherton, Gray
Wilson, Andrew
Golonka, Sabrina
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2017-10-13
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Rhythmically coordinating with a partner can increase pro-sociality, but pro-sociality does not appear to change in proportion to coordination success, or particular classes of coordination. Pro-social benefits may have more to do with simply coordinating in a social context than the details of the actual coordination (Cross et al., 2016). This begs the question, how stripped down can a coordination task be and still affect prosociality? Would it be sufficient simply to imagine coordinating with others? Imagining a social interaction can lead to many of the same effects as actual interaction (Crisp and Turner, 2009). We report the first experiments to explore whether imagined coordination affects pro-sociality similarly to actual coordination. Across two experiments and over 450 participants, mentally simulated coordination is shown to promote some, but not all, of the pro-social consequences of actual coordination. Imagined coordination significantly increased group cohesion and de-individuation, but did not consistently affect cooperation.
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Cross L, Atherton G, Wilson AD and Golonka S (2017) Imagined steps: mental simulation of coordinated rhythmic movements effects on pro-sociality. Frontiers in Psychology 8, 1798. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01798
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