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Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.
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38 citing papers in PubMed.
- Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Shared music listening, emotional arousal and cognitive empathy enhance social presence in online interactions.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
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- Lateralised neural mechanisms facilitate auditory self-other distinction and coordination in human dyads.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of embodied empathy in martial arts.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Shared and distinct patterns of cortical morphometric inverse divergence and their association with empathy in dancers and musicians.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Empathy in Musicians: Self-Report Versus Performance on an Empathic Accuracy Task.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2025Article
- Dogs as a model to study the emergence of concept manipulation skills for language-readiness.Biologia futura · 2025Review
- Interpersonal Physiological Synchrony During Dyadic Joint Action Is Increased by Task Novelty and Reduced by Social Anxiety.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Beyond perfect synchrony: shared interpersonal rhythmic timing enhances self-other merging judgements.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Actions and feelings in sync: exploring the relationship between synchrony and empathy in children's dyadic musical interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The geometry of interpersonal synchrony in human dance.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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- Culture, sex and social context influence brain-to-brain synchrony: an fNIRS hyperscanning study.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Social and nonsocial synchrony are interrelated and romantically attractive.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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- When people start getting real: The Group Living Skills Survey for extreme work environments.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Embodied perspective-taking enhances interpersonal synchronization: A body-swap study.iScience · 2023Article
- Interperformer coordination in piano-singing duo performances: phrase structure and empathy impact.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Early social communication through music: State of the art and future perspectives.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Coordinated behavior promotes collaboration among humans. To shed light upon this relationship, we investigated whether and how interpersonal coordination is promoted by empathic perspective taking (EPT). In a joint music-making task, pairs of participants rotated electronic music-boxes, producing two streams of musical sounds that were meant to be played synchronously. Participants - who were not musically trained - were assigned to high and low EPT groups based on pre-experimental assessments using a standardized personality questionnaire. Results indicated that high EPT pairs were generally more accurate in synchronizing their actions. When instructed to lead the interaction, high and low EPT leaders were equally cooperative with followers, making their performance tempo more regular, presumably in order to increase their predictability and help followers to synchronize. Crucially, however, high EPT followers were better able to use this information to predict leaders' behavior and thus improve interpersonal synchronization. Thus, empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination by enhancing accuracy in predicting others' behavior while leaving the aptitude for cooperation unaltered. We argue that such predictive capacity relies on a sensorimotor mechanism responsible for simulating others' actions in an anticipatory manner, leading to behavioral advantages that may impact social cognition on a broad scale.
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