Acting in synchrony with others raises individual pain tolerance and self-control

Evidence

Synchrony also improves self-regulation, which may in turn enhance team performance. One study by Emma Cohen and her colleagues found, for example, that rowing synchronously with team members (compared to rowing alone) led to higher levels of pain tolerance. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 380

Categorization

• CANDY: Synchronous rowing raising pain tolerance is a delightfully odd, tweetable finding that needs almost no setup.
• XREF: connects to: Ritual synchrony alone generates trust and reduces freeriding among participants — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 381; Self-control is maintained socially, through others, not only individually — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 331; Synchronous movement increases trust and cooperation while reducing freeriding (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ritual synchrony alone generates trust and reduces freeriding among participants — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 381; Self-control is maintained socially, through others, not only individually — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 331; Synchronous movement increases trust and cooperation while reducing freeriding (+1 more)