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Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children

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Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen, Cross, Ian, Burnard, Pamela·2013·Psychology of Music
DOI 10.1177/0305735612440609
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Musical group interaction (MGI) is a complex social setting requiring certain cognitive skills that may also elicit shared psychological states. We argue that many MGI-specific features may also be important for emotional empathy, the ability to experience another person’s emotional state. We thus hypothesized that long-term repeated participation in MGI could help enhance a capacity for emotional empathy even outside of the musical context, through a familiarization with and refinement of MGI empathy-promoting musical components (EPMCs). We tested this hypothesis by designing an MGI programme for primary school children consisting of interactive musical games implementing various EPMCs. We ran the programme for an entire school year and compared the emotional empathy of MGI children to control children using existing and novel measures of empathy before and after the programme. Our results support our hypothesis: MGI children showed higher emotional empathy scores after the study compared to its beginning, and higher scores than control children at the end of the study. These findings shed new light on the emotional processes involved in musical interaction and highlight the remarkable potential of MGI for promoting positive social-emotional capacities such as empathy.

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Authors
Rabinowitch, T.-C., Cross, I., & Burnard, P.
Affiliations
University of Cambridge (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Psychology of Music
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2012-04-13
Volume
41
Issue
4
Pages
484-498
ISSN
  • 0305-7356 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-3087
DOI
10.1177/0305735612440609
OpenAlex
W2124514031
Cited by
387
References
60
Citations by year
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FWCI
289.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychology of Music (publishedVersion)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
  • Apollo
Funders
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
affective empathy, children, social-emotional development, music education, elementary school students, long-term intervention

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