The choreography of group affiliation

J von Zimmermann, S Vicary, M Sperling… - Topics in Cognitive …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
When two people move in synchrony, they become more social. Yet it is not clear how this
effect scales up to larger numbers of people. Does a group need to move in unison to …

If they move in sync, they must feel in sync: Movement synchrony leads to attributions of rapport and entitativity

D Lakens, M Stel - Social Cognition, 2011 - Guilford Press
Coordinated behavior patterns are one of the pillars of social interaction. Researchers have
recently shown that movement synchrony influences ratings of rapport, and the extent to …

Verbal synchrony and action dynamics in large groups

J Von Zimmermann, DC Richardson - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
While synchronized movement has been shown to increase liking and feelings of
togetherness between people, we investigated whether collective speaking in time would …

Movement synchrony influences intergroup relations in a minimal groups paradigm

A Good, B Choma, FA Russo - Basic and Applied Social …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Studies show that synchronizing movements with others encourages a collective social
identity, leading to increased cooperation within a group. The current study investigated …

Do birds of a feather move together? Group membership and behavioral synchrony

LK Miles, J Lumsden, MJ Richardson… - Experimental brain …, 2011 - Springer
The temporal coordination of interpersonal behavior is a foundation for effective joint action
with synchronized movement moderating core components of person perception and social …

Who syncs? Social motives and interpersonal coordination

J Lumsden, LK Miles, MJ Richardson, CA Smith… - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - Elsevier
Interpersonal synchrony provides an important foundation for social interaction, as periods
of temporal coordination lead to enhanced sociality. Moreover, synchronous actions are …

It's all in the timing: Interpersonal synchrony increases affiliation

MJ Hove, JL Risen - Social cognition, 2009 - Guilford Press
The tendency to mimic and synchronize with others is well established. Although mimicry
has been shown to lead to affiliation between co-actors, the effect of interpersonal synchrony …

How moving together brings us together: When coordinated rhythmic movement affects cooperation

L Cross, AD Wilson, S Golonka - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Although it is well established that rhythmically coordinating with a social partner can
increase cooperation, it is as yet unclear when and why intentional coordination has such …

Collective rhythm as an emergent property during human social coordination

A Farrera, G Ramos-Fernández - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the
behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a …

Perceiving social cohesion: Movement synchrony and task demands both matter

S Wilson, C Gos - Perception, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has shown that interpersonal synchrony is associated with a number of
prosocial effects. We investigated the respective roles of behavioural synchrony and …