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Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Interactions
include laughter, singing and dancing, feasting, storytelling and the rituals of religion, probably in that order.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
What they found instead, to their initial chagrin, was that our prefrontal cortices almost always slow down and grow quieter when we interact with others.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
This work has widened into other contexts. Uri Hasson, a researcher at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has shown that a good storyteller can induce synchronisation between her and her listener’s brains (if there’s shared common ground, experiences and beliefs); and, in a classroom setting, how well a student’s brain waves sync up with their p... See more
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
William James referred to our “susceptibility to music,” and while music can affect all of us—calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize and synchronize us at work or play—it