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Synchrony and exertion during dance independently raise pain threshold and encourage social bonding
- Abstract:
- Group dancing is a ubiquitous human activity that involves exertive synchronized movement to music. It is hypothesized to play a role in social bonding, potentially via the release of endorphins, which are analgesic and reward-inducing, and have been implicated in primate social bonding. We used a 2 × 2 experimental design to examine effects of exertion and synchrony on bonding. Both demonstrated significant independent positive effects on pain threshold (a proxy for endorphin activation) and in-group bonding. This suggests that dance which involves both exertive and synchronized movement may be an effective group bonding activity.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0767
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+ European Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0472cxd90
- Funding agency for:
- Tarr, B
- Launay, J
- Dunbar, R
- Grant:
- 295663
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0302b4677
- Funding agency for:
- Cohen, E
- Publisher:
- Royal Society
- Journal:
- Biology Letters More from this journal
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 10
- Article number:
- 20150767
- Publication date:
- 2015-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-10-01
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1744-957X
- ISSN:
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1744-9561
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English
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pubs:574370
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- Tarr et al
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- © 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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