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. 2020 Jan 17:10:2954.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02954. eCollection 2019.

The Relevance of a Conductor Competition for the Study of Emotional Synchronization Within and Between Groups in a Natural Musical Setting

Thibault Chabin  1 , Grégory Tio  1   2 , Alexandre Comte  1   2   3 , Coralie Joucla  1 , Damien Gabriel  1   2   3 , Lionel Pazart  1   2
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The Relevance of a Conductor Competition for the Study of Emotional Synchronization Within and Between Groups in a Natural Musical Setting

Thibault Chabin et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Group emotional dynamics are a central concern in the study of human interaction and communication. To study group emotions, the social context of a musical event in natural conditions may overcome several limits of laboratory experiments and could provide a suitable framework. This study aimed to evaluate if cultural events such as a conductor competition could welcome scientific research for the study of group emotional sharing. We led an observational study, which suggests that in this particular context, public, musicians and jury would agree to participate and to wear neurophysiological and physiological devices to monitor their emotional state during the competition. Self-administrated scales showed that, in the context of a musical competition, members of the public felt strong musical emotions such as music chills. Our results suggest that such a specific competition design is a suitable experimental model to lead an experiment under ecological conditions to effectively investigate collective emotional synchronization. In the future, with the implementation of an acquisition system recording synchronous neurophysiological data for a large group of participants, we may be able to highlight mechanisms involved in emotional synchronization in a natural musical setting.

Keywords: EEG; conductor competition; emotional synchronization; hyperscanning methods; music.

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