Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children
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DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.04.004
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Tomasello, Michael
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作者：
Kirschner, Sebastian;Tomasello, Michael
人类是唯一会创作音乐的灵长类动物。但音乐的进化起源和功能尚不清楚。鉴于在传统文化中，音乐制作和舞蹈通常是重要群体仪式（如入会仪式、婚礼或战斗准备）不可或缺的一部分，一个假设是，音乐演变成一种促进社会联系和群体凝聚力的工具，最终增加亲社会的群体内行为和合作。在这里，我们通过证明 4 岁儿童共同制作音乐增加了随后的自发合作和助人行为，相对于具有相同水平的社交和语言互动但没有音乐的精心匹配的控制条件，为这一假设提供了支持。在其他功能机制中，我们提出，音乐制作，包括共同唱歌和跳舞，鼓励参与者及时保持集体意图和共同目标的视听表现，从而有效地满足人类与他人分享情感、经验和活动的内在愿望。 (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
Humans are the only primates that make music. But the evolutionary origins and functions of music are unclear. Given that in traditional cultures music making and dancing are often integral parts of important group ceremonies such as initiation rites, weddings or preparations for battle, one hypothesis is that music evolved into a tool that fosters social bonding and group cohesion, ultimately increasing prosocial in-group behavior and cooperation. Here we provide support for this hypothesis by showing that joint music making among 4-year-old children increases subsequent spontaneous cooperative and helpful behavior, relative to a carefully matched control condition with the same level of social and linguistic interaction but no music. Among other functional mechanisms, we propose that music making, including joint singing and dancing, encourages the participants to keep a constant audiovisual representation of the collective intention and shared goal of vocalizing and moving together in time thereby effectively satisfying the intrinsic human desire to share emotions, experiences and activities with others. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.