No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Signals and cues of social groups
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2022
Abstract
A crucial factor in how we perceive social groups involves the signals and cues emitted by them. Groups signal various properties of their constitution through coordinated behaviors across sensory modalities, influencing receivers' judgments of the group and subsequent interactions. We argue that group communication is a necessary component of a comprehensive computational theory of social groups.
- Type
- Open Peer Commentary
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press
References
Bryant, G. A. (2013). Animal signals and emotion in music: Coordinating affect across groups. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 990, 1–13.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bryant, G. A. (2014). The evolution of coordinated vocalizations before language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(6), 549–550.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., Clint, E., Aarøe, L., Apicella, C. L., … Zhou, Y. (2016). Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17), 4682–4687.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bryant, G. A., Wang, C. S., & Fusaroli, R. (2020). Recognizing affiliation in colaughter and cospeech. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 201092.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
DePaulo, B. M., Lindsay, J. J., Malone, B. E., Muhlenbruck, L., Charlton, K., & Cooper, H. (2003). Cues to deception. Psychological Bulletin, 129(1), 74–118.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hagen, E. H., & Bryant, G. A. (2003). Music and dance as a coalition signaling system. Human Nature, 14(1), 21–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hagen, E. H., & Hammerstein, P. (2009). Did Neanderthals and other early humans sing? Seeking the biological roots of music in the territorial advertisements of primates, lions, hyenas, and wolves. Musicae Scientiae, 13(2_suppl), 291–320.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harrington, F. H. (1989). Chorus howling by wolves: Acoustic structure, pack size and the Beau Geste effect, Bioacoustics, 2(2), 117–136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Krebs, J. R. (1977). The significance of song repertoires: The Beau Geste hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 25(2), 475–478.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McElreath, R., Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. (2003). Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers. Current Anthropology, 44(1), 122–130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mehr, S., Krasnow, M., Bryant, G. A., & Hagen, E. H. (2021). Origins of music in credible signaling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e60. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20000345CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Müller, P., Huang, M. X., & Bulling, A. (2018). Detecting low rapport during natural interactions in small groups from non-verbal behaviour. In The 23rd international conference on intelligent user interfaces (pp. 153–164). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172969.Google Scholar
Phillips-Silver, J., Aktipis, A., & Bryant, G. A. (2010). The ecology of entrainment: Foundations of coordinated rhythmic movement. Music Perception, 28(1), 3–14.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pietraszewski, D., & Schwartz, A. (2014a). Evidence that accent is a dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of perceptual salience, familiarity, or ease-of-processing. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(1), 43–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pietraszewski, D., & Schwartz, A. (2014b). Evidence that accent is a dedicated dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of coalitional categorization. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(1), 51–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ravignani, A., Bowling, D. L., & Fitch, W. (2014). Chorusing, synchrony, and the evolutionary functions of rhythm. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1118.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Vascon, S., Mequanint, E. Z., Cristani, M., Hung, H., Pelillo, M., & Murino, V. (2014). A game-theoretic probabilistic approach for detecting conversational groups. In Asian conference on computer vision (pp. 658–675). Springer.Google Scholar
Vouloumanos, A., & Bryant, G. A. (2019). Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–8.Google ScholarPubMed
Wang, Q., Chen, M., Nie, F., & Li, X. (2018). Detecting coherent groups in crowd scenes by multiview clustering. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 42(1), 46–58.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Target article
Toward a computational theory of social groups: A finite set of cognitive primitives for representing any and all social groups in the context of conflict
Related commentaries (29)
A neuroscientific perspective on the computational theory of social groups
Advantages and limitations of representing groups in terms of recursive utilities
Are we there yet? Every computational theory needs a few black boxes, including theories about groups
Beyond folk-sociology: Extending Pietraszewski's model to large-group dynamics
Can group representations based on relational cues warrant the rich inferences typically drawn from group membership?
Coalitionary psychology and group dynamics on social media
Compassion within conflict: Toward a computational theory of social groups informed by maternal brain physiology
Conciliation and meta-contrast are important for understanding how people assign group memberships during conflict situations
Developmental antecedents of representing “group” behavior: A commentary on Pietraszewski's theory of groups
Group? What group? A computational model of the group needs a psychology of “us” (not “them”)
How do we know who may replace each other in triadic conflict roles?
Interacting with others while reacting to the environment
Internal versus external group conflicts
Latent structure learning as an alternative computation for group inference
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups
More than one way to skin a cat: Addressing the arbitration problem in developmental science
On vagueness and parochialism in psychological research on groups
Paranoia reveals the complexity in assigning individuals to groups on the basis of inferred intentions
Private versus public: A dual model for resource-constrained conflict representations
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient
Shadow banning, astroturfing, catfishing, and other online conflicts where beliefs about group membership diverge
Shared intentionality and the representation of groups; or, how to build a socially adept robot
Signals and cues of social groups
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty
Societies and other kinds of social groups
The labelled container: Conceptual development of social group representations
Towards a computational network theory of social groups
Triadic conflict “primitives” can be reduced to welfare trade-off ratios
Using laboratory intergroup conflict and riots as a “stress test”
Author response
More “us,” less “them”: An appeal for pluralism – and stand-alone computational theorizing – in our science of social groups