When people observe one another, behavioural alignment can be detected at many levels,
from the physical to the mental. Likewise, when people process the same highly complex …

From Australia to the Arctic, human groups engage in synchronous behaviour during
communal rituals. Because ritualistic synchrony is widespread, many argue that it is …

In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand, explain, and predict many
features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed …

Behavioural synchronization has been shown to facilitate social bonding and cooperation
but the mechanisms through which such effects are attained are poorly understood. In the …

Cooperating with other people is a key achievement in child development and is essential
for human culture. We examined whether we could induce 4-year-old children to increase …

We introduce Multidimensional Recurrence Quantification Analysis (MdRQA) as a tool to
analyze multidimensional time-series data. We show how MdRQA can be used to capture …

Joint engagement in music often facilitates positive social interaction, effectively shifting
participants' perspective from the individual to the collective. The result is tight coordination …

Collective events can generate intense emotions, shape group identities, and forge strong
bonds. Do these effects extend to remote participation, and what are the psychological …

Research regarding interpersonal coordination can be traced back to the early 1960s when
video recording began to be utilized in communication studies. Since then, technological …

Behavioral synchronization has been found to facilitate social bonding and prosociality but
the neural mechanisms underlying such effects are not well understood. In the current study …