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Cultural Familiarity and Individual Musical Taste Differently Affect Social Bonding when Moving to Music.
Stupacher, Jan; Witek, Maria A G; Vuoskoski, Jonna K; Vuust, Peter.
Affiliation
  • Stupacher J; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark. stupacher@clin.au.dk.
  • Witek MAG; Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. stupacher@clin.au.dk.
  • Vuoskoski JK; Department of Music, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  • Vuust P; RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Movement, Department of Musicology & Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Sci Rep ; 10(1): 10015, 2020 06 22.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32572038
Social bonds are essential for our health and well-being. Music provides a unique and implicit context for social bonding by introducing temporal and affective frameworks, which facilitate movement synchronization and increase affiliation. How these frameworks are modulated by cultural familiarity and individual musical preferences remain open questions. In three experiments, we operationalized the affective aspects of social interactions as ratings of interpersonal closeness between two walking stick-figures in a video. These figures represented a virtual self and a virtual other person. The temporal aspects of social interactions were manipulated by movement synchrony: while the virtual self always moved in time with the beat of instrumental music, the virtual other moved either synchronously or asynchronously. When the context-providing music was more enjoyed, social closeness increased strongly with a synchronized virtual other, but only weakly with an asynchronized virtual other. When the music was more familiar, social closeness was higher independent of movement synchrony. We conclude that the social context provided by music can strengthen interpersonal closeness by increasing temporal and affective self-other overlaps. Individual musical preferences might be more relevant for the influence of movement synchrony on social bonding than musical familiarity.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Culture / Dancing / Social Interaction / Music Aspects: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Language: En Journal: Sci Rep Year: 2020 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Denmark Country of publication: United kingdom

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Culture / Dancing / Social Interaction / Music Aspects: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Language: En Journal: Sci Rep Year: 2020 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Denmark Country of publication: United kingdom