You, me, and us: Maintaining self-other distinction enhances coordination, agency, and affect

Merle T. Fairhurst; Ana Tajadura-Jiménez; Peter E. Keller; Ophelia Deroy

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108253

You, me, and us: Maintaining self-other distinction enhances coordination, agency, and affect

Merle T. Fairhurst^*, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Peter E. Keller, Ophelia Deroy

^*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Center for Music in the Brain

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

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Coordinating our actions with others changes how we behave and feel. Here, we provide evidence that interacting with others rests on a balance between self-other integration and segregation. Using a group walking paradigm, participants were instructed to synchronize with a metronome while listening to the sounds of 8 virtual partners. By manipulating the similarity and synchronicity of the partners’ steps to the participant's own, our novel auditory task disentangles the effects of synchrony and self-other similarity and examines their contribution to both collective and individual awareness. We measured temporal coordination (step timing regularity and synchrony with the metronome), gait patterns, and subjective reports about sense of self and group cohesion. The main findings show that coordination is best when participants hear distinct but synchronous virtual others, leading to greater subjective feelings of agency, strength, dominance, and happiness.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Artikelnummer	108253
Tidsskrift	iScience
Vol/bind	26
Nummer	12
Antal sider	15
ISSN	2589-0042
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108253
Status	Udgivet - dec. 2023

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