Synchronous singing and movement measurably increase cooperative contributions, even in four-year-olds.

Evidence

The results show that synchrony—both singing and moving together and just singing together—promoted greater cooperative contributions, which resulted in higher monetary payoffs for the whole group. Parallel results have been found even among four-year-old children, for whom jointly making music promotes greater prosociality. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 526

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural evolution sustains costly norms that help neither the group nor the individual. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 475; Synchronous singing and movement increase trust and reduce freeriding among group members.; Singing together bodily enacts the imagined community as unisonance — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 551 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Synchronous movement increases trust and cooperation while reducing freeriding #corroborates (0.97)
• Synchronous singing and movement increase trust and reduce freeriding among group members. #corroborates (0.93)
• Shared synchronous ritual synchronizes the heart rates of participants and their kin #expands (0.82) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 380
• Sync and body-presence are required for affective resonance in teaching #expands (0.78) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 286
• Singing together bodily enacts the imagined community as unisonance #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 551
• Development from infancy is not only growing independence but growing interdependence #expands (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 435
• Mutual visibility and hearing increase cooperative outcomes #complicates (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 578