Social and Personality Psychology

Cross-cultural and Indigenous perspectives on music and social bonding.

Experimental studies of primarily Western participants have suggested that musical synchrony facilitates social bonding. Critics question the validity and cross-cultural generality of synchrony-bonding relationships, as well as the causal role of …

Synchronised group singing enhances social bonding more than group conversation or recitation does: A Registered Report across 30 languages.

The evolution of music, speech, and prosociality has been debated since before Darwin. The social bonding hypothesis proposes that these phenomena may be interlinked: musicality may have facilitated the evolution of social bonding beyond the …