[PsychToday] Can Moving Together Rhythmically Combat Toddler Selfishness?

Take a moment and think of all the ways we interact rhythmically with children. We rock. We bounce. We dance. We walk. It seems the developmental benefits of this intuitive, simple play may extend farther then we thought.

New Research: Motor Synchrony and Prosocial Development

Researchers at McMaster University conducted a series of studies to test the effect of interpersonal motor synchrony on prosocial behaviors in children. Prosocial behaviors were measured as . . . Read more.

Tagged as: child development, empathy, movement, parenting, pro-social behavior, rhythm, synchrony