Abstract
Characteristics indicative of individual and group power can be used to judge social dominance. The present study investigated whether observers use movement synchrony to judge the dominance of teams during a social conflict. How synchronously individuals move together has been found to influence judgments of team effectiveness and the formidability of groups. Across four experiments, the present study examined whether movement synchrony is also used as a cue of team dominance. Experiment 1 provided evidence that teams of animated characters with higher movement synchrony were judged as more likely to win a competition and were rated as more dominant. A similar effect of synchrony on teams winning a competition was observed in Experiment 2 with different types of movement. Experiment 3 replicated the effects of the prior experiments: teams that moved more synchronously were judged as more likely to win a competition and rated as more socially dominant. These effects were extended in Experiment 4 with a new set of stimuli, human-like avatars performing complex dance actions, replicating synchrony-effects with different types of characters. This research indicates that human observers use movement synchrony to judge the social dominance of teams. This expands the types of behavioral cues that are used to predict the power of teams when social conflicts occur.
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