As our attention shifts more and more to our electronic devices, are you feeling isolated from the people around you? If so, you might want to try a technique that apparently worked for our ancient ancestors: Choral singing.
Newly published research confirms that raising voices together is an effective way to forge feelings of connection and inclusion. Moreover, it finds this effect is particularly robust for singers who are part of a sizable ensemble featuring many unfamiliar faces.
"The finding that singing together fosters social closeness—even in large contexts where individuals are not known to each other—is consistent with evolutionary accounts that emphasize the role of music in social bonding," writes a research team led by the University of London's Daniel Weinstein.
[For more of this story, written by Tom Jacobs, go to http://www.psmag.com/health-an...d-try-choral-singing]
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