Conference proceeding
Picking up good vibrations: The effect of collaborative music making on social bonding and enjoyment
Proceedings of the ICMPC-SMPC 2016 Joint Conference, pp.852-856
2016
Abstract
Prior work has shown that music making is reliably correlated with increases in oxytocin and consequently the experiences of social bonding. This study more deeply explores the musical aspects that contribute to the relationship between music making and social bonding. Specifically, we compared a collaborative music making condition in which participants sang with a live accompanist to a non-collaborative condition in which participants sang with a recording. The effects of these conditions were measured against enjoyment, stress, and social bonding. In this study, we report no significant effects of collaboration on physiological measures. Moreover, self-report measures, in which participants provided a rating for questions related to enjoyment, stress, and social bonding, only showed significant effects of collaboration on feeling connected to the accompaniment. However, while most of the physiological and self-report measures were not significant, the results for most of them were skewed in the expected direction.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Picking up good vibrations: The effect of collaborative music making on social bonding and enjoyment
- Creators
- Stephen Ash - University of Mary Hardin–BaylorJoshua Albrecht - University of Mary Hardin–Baylor
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the ICMPC-SMPC 2016 Joint Conference, pp.852-856
- Publisher
- San Francisco, CA
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2016 the authors
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2016
- Academic Unit
- School of Music
- Record Identifier
- 9985219827602771
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