Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music

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, pr...

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Autores principales:	Giacomo Novembre, Zoe Mitsopoulos, Peter E. Keller
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2019
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c7c9183006d44dd59fd91d0275bee09b
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c7c9183006d44dd59fd91d0275bee09b2021-12-02T15:09:28ZEmpathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music10.1038/s41598-019-48556-92045-2322https://doaj.org/article/c7c9183006d44dd59fd91d0275bee09b2019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48556-9https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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.Giacomo NovembreZoe MitsopoulosPeter E. KellerNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019)
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description	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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title	Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music
title_short	Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music
title_full	Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music
title_fullStr	Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music
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publisher	Nature Portfolio
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Empathic perspective taking promotes interpersonal coordination through music

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