Page | 62 Depending on the particular behavior performance somehow produces and interaction in question, behavioral synchronous clapping. cycles of interpersonal entrainment can There is preliminary evidence range from milliseconds to hours. . . oe . that even with no externally imposed Indeed, this kind of interpersonal "ar : . ; demands prolonged synchronization entrainment is a pervasive phenomenon ee . ; . emerges within pairs of people not specific to human social behavior : . dyads? Wh. fide lone’ interacting or dyads’. What one finds is a ; that despite individual differences in When does synchronized movements, participants entrain (tap clapping occur? The distinctive feature together in time) rapidly when of such an event is a convergence participants can perceive the behavior of between the neural mechanisms others’. Extensive research in underlying the monitoring of the coordination dynamics has demonstrated movement of others and the execution of that such entrainment does not depend one’s own movements. The specific on the intention to coordinate behavior factors responsible for the tipping point '®. 1 Studies have repeatedly shown that from asynchronous to synchronous there is a spontaneous propensity to clapping are not yet known, but mimic other people (generally observed descriptively each individual shifts the in dyads). One implication this kind of timing of his or her subsequent clap to behavioral synchrony is the emergence the perceived timing of claps by the of affective bonding — such as a feeling whole collective. Thus, a continuous of rapport — both in the case of mimicry'* adjustment process emerges in the form and between the synchronized partners'”. of a collective behavior (synchronized One might conjecture that positive clapping) to which each individual feelings are even stronger when more contributes and no single individual people are synchronized. controls. Such continuous monitoring of The conditions that lead to the collective rat