Imagined Steps: Mental Simulation of Coordinated Rhythmic Movements Effects on Pro-sociality

Frontiers in Psychology

Liam Cross¹ 

关键词: coordinated rhythmic movement;    interpersonal entrainment;    interpersonal synchrony;    interpersonal coordination;    rhythmic entrainment;    mental simulation;    joint action;    imagined contact;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01798

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Rhythmically coordinating with a partner can increase pro-sociality, but pro-sociality does not appear to change in proportion to coordination success, or particular classes of coordination. Pro-social benefits may have more to do with simply coordinating in a social context than the details of the actual coordination (Cross et al., 2016). This begs the question, how stripped down can a coordination task be and still affect pro-sociality? Would it be sufficient simply to imagine coordinating with others? Imagining a social interaction can lead to many of the same effects as actual interaction (Crisp and Turner, 2009). We report the first experiments to explore whether imagined coordination affects pro-sociality similarly to actual coordination. Across two experiments and over 450 participants, mentally simulated coordination is shown to promote some, but not all, of the pro-social consequences of actual coordination. Imagined coordination significantly increased group cohesion and de-individuation, but did not consistently affect cooperation.

【 授权许可】

CC BY