The Relevance of a Conductor Competition for the Study of Emotional Synchronization Within and Between Groups in a Natural Musical Setting.
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Date publication
janvier 2019
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr PAZART Lionel
Tous les auteurs :
Chabin T, Tio G, Comte A, Joucla C, Gabriel D, Pazart L
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Résumé
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.
Mots clés
EEG, conductor competition, emotional synchronization, hyperscanning methods, music
Référence
Front Psychol. 2019 ;10:2954