![]() ![]() In a seminal study, participants who tapped in synchrony with an experimenter later rated the experimenter as more likeable than those who tapped asynchronously with them. Though traditionally more speculative (e.g., ), the previous decade has seen an increase in the number of experimental investigations into the prosocial effects of motoric coordination. Indeed, many studies in social psychology have paid particular attention to the way that people, once absorbed in a crowd, act less with reference to the personal or individual self and more in line with the collective see also: ) In the present investigation we reveal that the deindividuating effects of crowd membership extend beyond physical crowds to include membership in imagined, unspecified crowds that the motoric aspects of the crowd are important, and that some of the effects that are usually attributed to synchronous movement can be obtained via imagination alone.Ĭoordinated interpersonal movement has been shown to elicit a range of social consequences that can arise irrespective of movement type (for reviews see, ). ![]() ![]() This work establishes that imagined synchrony can be employed online to foster prosocial attitudes towards groups of people, and that a process of deindividuation might mediate this effect.ĭeindividuation and the perceptions of responsibility linked with membership in a crowd are among the most long-standing areas of interest in social psychology and include some of its most well-established findings (e.g., ). Deindividuation partially mediated the effect of imagined coordination on affiliation. That is, participants were less likely to report seeing themselves as unique individuals, instead viewing themselves as a part of a group (deindividuation) and more likely to report a sense of emotional closeness (affiliation) with the imagined group. Imagined coordination led to greater levels of deindividuation and affiliation. In the present study, participants were asked to imagine walking with a crowd in a coordinated (versus uncoordinated) way to explore the effects of imagined coordination on individuals’ perceptions of themselves and the crowd. Recent research suggests that merely imagining coordination may lead to similar social effects. Moving in time with others-interpersonal coordination-increases affiliation, helping behaviours and gives rise to a host of other prosocial outcomes. ![]()
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