Does singing enhance cooperation more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report
Patrick E. Savage, Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney, Aleksandar Arabadjiev, Adwoa Arhine, Juan F. Ariza, Joshua S. Bamford, Brenda Suyanne Barbosa, Ann-Kathrin Beck, Michel Belyk, Emmanouil Benetos, Damián Blasi, Joseph A. Bulbulia, Anne Cabildo, Sasha Calhoun, Gakuto Chiba, Stephen Ithel Duran, Ulvhild Færøvik, Tecumseh Fitch, Shinya Fujii, Shira Gabriel, Felix Haiduk, Niels Chr. Hansen, Shantala Hegde, Ferenc Honbolygó, Jiawen Huang, Nori Jacoby, Yannick Jadoul, Zixuan Jia, Taeyun Jung, Csaba Kertész, Uswatun Khasanah, Inkuk Kim, Yoichi Kitayama, Wojciech Krzyżanowski, Urise Kuikuro, Dilyana Kurdova, Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, Juan David Leongómez, Fang Liu, Teona Lomsadze, Psyche Loui, Yiqing Ma, John Mcbride, Andrei Miu, Dayna Moya, Rogerdison Natsitsabui, Giacomo Novembre, Florence Ewomazino Nweke, Patricia Opondo, Yuto Ozaki, Hineatua Parkinson, Mark Lenini Parselelo, Danya Pavlovich, Peter Pfordresher, Katarzyna Pisanski, Simina Pitur, Piotr Podlipniak, Tudor Popescu, Polina Proutskova, Suzanne Purdy, Andrea Ravignani, Limor Raviv, Dhwani Sadaphal, Javier Silva-Zurita, Ignacio Soto-Silva, Bronwyn Tarr, Adam Tierney, Prapatsorn Tiratanti, Laurel Trainor, Christina der Nederlanden, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Shahaboddin Dabaghi Varnosfaderani, Mason Youngblood, Roberto Zariquiey
In principle acceptance by PCI Registered Reports
Resumen
The evolution of music, language, and cooperation have been debated since before Darwin. The social bonding hypothesis proposes that these phenomena may be interlinked: musicality may have facilitated the evolution of group cooperation beyond the possibilities of spoken language. Although dozens of experimental studies have shown that synchronised rhythms can promote cooperation, it is unclear whether synchronous singing enhances cooperation relative to spoken language, particularly across diverse societies that differ in their musical/linguistic rhythms and social organisation. Here, we propose a Registered Report to test this hypothesis through a global experiment in diverse languages aiming to collect data from 1500 participants across 50 sites. The social bonding hypothesis predicts that cooperation will increase more after synchronous singing than after spoken (sequential) conversation or (simultaneous) recitation, while alternative hypotheses predict that song will not increase cooperation relative to speech. Regardless of outcome, these results will provide an unprecedented understanding of cross-cultural relationships between music, language, and cooperation.
Integrante de CODEC
Juan David Leongómez
Profesor Titular
- Líder CODEC
- Investigador EvoCo
- Director MetaCiencia