ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2022
Expectancy Effects Threaten the Inferential Validity of Synchrony-Prosociality Research.
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- Group Interpersonal Synchrony Increases Prosocial Behavior in Young Autistic Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
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- The Moving Mandala: Exploring the Pro-Social Effects of Musical and Non-Musical Synchrony in Children in a Virtual World.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- GrooVR: an open access virtual reality drumming application to improve pro-sociality using synchronous movement.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies.Social psychological and personality science · 2024Article
- Individual differences in music-induced interpersonal synchronization and self-other integration: the role of creativity and empathy.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- An observation of a negative effect of social cohesion on creativity in musical improvisation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Synchrony-Prosociality Link Cannot Be Explained Away as Expectancy Effect: Response to Atwood et al. ().Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2021Article
- Origins of music in credible signaling.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many studies argue that synchronized movement increases prosocial attitudes and behavior. We reviewed meta-analytic evidence that reported effects of synchrony may be driven by experimenter expectancy, leading to experimenter bias; and participant expectancy, otherwise known as placebo effects. We found that a majority of published studies do not adequately control for experimenter bias and that multiple independent replication attempts with added controls have failed to find the original effects. In a preregistered experiment, we measured participant expectancy directly, asking whether participants have
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