Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆

By Sebastian Kirschner, Michael Tomasello. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Developmental Biology

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Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding (2016, positive): “These effects are also present throughout development (Kirschner & Tomasello 2010; Cirelli et al. 2014a, b; Tunçgenç et al. 2015), suggesting that, if they are learned, this happens very early in life.”
A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, background): “…are more prosocial following reciprocal (vs. simply friendly) social interactions with an adult (Barragan & Dweck, 2014) and following synchronous music making (Kirschner & Tomasello, 2010), suggesting that responsive, coordinated social interactions experimentally boost children’s care for others.”
Culture and social behavior (2015, background): “Similarly, recent work shows how various ritual elements influence our sociality, including synchrony, music-making, costly acts, and the terrifying experiences created by many rites of passage [34 ,35–43].”
Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members☆ (2016, background): “Kirschner and Tomasello (2010) found that synchronous joint-music making increases prosociality in 4-year-olds.”
It’s better together: The psychological benefits of singing in a choir (2016, background): “Singing or marching in synchrony with others has been found to increase cooperative behaviour among group members (Kirschner & Tomasello, 2010; Wiltermuth & Heath, 2009).”
How Moving Together Binds Us Together: The Social Consequences of Interpersonal Entrainment and Group Processes (2019, background): “…to cooperate towards a common, positively interdependent goal (i.e., successfully coordinating requires all involved parties to move together), which is thought to lead people to perceive each other as similar, co-active members of the same group (Good et al., 2017; Kirschner & Tomasello, 2010).”
The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “…(Neda et al. 2000), pendulum swinging (Richardson et al. 2005, Schmidt & O’Brien 1997), rocking chair movement (Richardson et al. 2007), waving (Lakens 2010), finger tapping (Oullier et al. 2008), music making (e.g., piano playing; Keller et al. 2007), and dancing (Kirschner & Tomasello 2010).”
Joint Drumming in Brazilian and German Preschool Children (2014, methodology): “In the first task, the experimenter had a sudden accident that offered the child the choice of either helping him or continuing his or her own play activity (after Kirschner & Tomasello, 2010).”
Social Effects of Movement Synchrony: Increased Infant Helpfulness only Transfers to Affiliates of Synchronously Moving Partners (2016, background): “Four-year-old children who sing and move together while playing a game also show increased cooperation and helpfulness toward each other (Kirschner & Tomasello, 2010).”