Mogan Reneeta, Bulbulia Joseph, Fischer Ronald
Mind, Body, Cultural Evolution Laboratory, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jan 15;9:2790. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02790. eCollection 2018.
We aimed to examine the link between two types of joint action (synchrony and asynchrony) and creativity (both divergent thinking and convergent thinking) using an established experimental paradigm. A secondary aim was to replicate and extend the amplified positive effects of shared intentionality (i.e., having a shared common goal) on social and affective responses. Participants ( = 138) were randomly assigned to move in synchrony, move in asynchrony, or passively observe others moving. To induce shared goals, participants were provided with either a shared group goal of working together or an individual goal of focusing on the individual participant's own movements. First, our results revealed that joint action in combination with group goal conditions decreases convergent thinking, but we found no support for differences in divergent thinking. This indicates that it may be the underlying shared goals combined with joint action that influences convergent thinking, and not synchronized movements. Second, we replicated synchrony's positive effect on cohesion and positive affect. These findings are consistent with evolutionary theories of group rituals as a means for inducing solidarity, and extend previous findings by showing that joint action with shared goals may potentially induce shared patterns of thought.
我们旨在使用既定的实验范式来研究两种联合行动类型（同步与异步）与创造力（发散性思维和聚合性思维）之间的联系。第二个目标是复制并扩展共享意向（即拥有共同目标）对社会和情感反应的放大积极影响。参与者（(n = 138)）被随机分配为同步移动、异步移动或被动观察他人移动。为了诱导共享目标，为参与者提供了共同合作的共享群体目标或专注于个体参与者自身动作的个体目标。首先，我们的结果表明，联合行动与群体目标条件相结合会降低聚合性思维，但我们没有发现发散性思维存在差异的证据。这表明可能是潜在的共享目标与联合行动相结合影响了聚合性思维，而不是同步动作。其次，我们复制了同步对凝聚力和积极情感的积极影响。这些发现与将群体仪式作为增强团结的一种手段的进化理论一致，并通过表明具有共享目标的联合行动可能会潜在地诱导共享思维模式扩展了先前的研究结果。
