Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination
The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a temporal structure to the individual and social dynamics. However, it has not been fully explored whether such t...
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| description | The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a temporal structure to the individual and social dynamics. However, it has not been fully explored whether such temporal patterns emerge during interpersonal coordination beyond dyads, whether this phenomenon arises from complex cognitive mechanisms or from relatively simple rules of behavior, or which are the sociocultural processes that underlie this phenomenon. We review the evidence for the existence of group-level rhythmic patterns that result from social interactions and argue that the complexity of group dynamics can lead to temporal regularities that cannot be predicted from the individual periodicities: an emergent collective rhythm. Moreover, we use this interpretation of the literature to discuss how taking into account the sociocultural niche in which individuals develop can help explain the seemingly divergent results that have been reported on the social influences and consequences of interpersonal coordination. We make recommendations on further research to test these arguments and their relationship to the feeling of belonging and assimilation experienced during group dynamics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b7cda91696a1409b90a038bb9f2c06422022-12-21T17:26:39ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.772262772262Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social CoordinationArodi FarreraGabriel Ramos-FernándezThe literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a temporal structure to the individual and social dynamics. However, it has not been fully explored whether such temporal patterns emerge during interpersonal coordination beyond dyads, whether this phenomenon arises from complex cognitive mechanisms or from relatively simple rules of behavior, or which are the sociocultural processes that underlie this phenomenon. We review the evidence for the existence of group-level rhythmic patterns that result from social interactions and argue that the complexity of group dynamics can lead to temporal regularities that cannot be predicted from the individual periodicities: an emergent collective rhythm. Moreover, we use this interpretation of the literature to discuss how taking into account the sociocultural niche in which individuals develop can help explain the seemingly divergent results that have been reported on the social influences and consequences of interpersonal coordination. We make recommendations on further research to test these arguments and their relationship to the feeling of belonging and assimilation experienced during group dynamics.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.772262/fullinterpersonal coordinationcollective rhythmemergencespontaneous mimicrysynchronization |
| spellingShingle | Arodi Farrera Gabriel Ramos-Fernández Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination Frontiers in Psychology interpersonal coordination collective rhythm emergence spontaneous mimicry synchronization |
| title | Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination |
| title_full | Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination |
| title_fullStr | Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination |
| title_short | Collective Rhythm as an Emergent Property During Human Social Coordination |
| title_sort | collective rhythm as an emergent property during human social coordination |
| topic | interpersonal coordination collective rhythm emergence spontaneous mimicry synchronization |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.772262/full |
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