Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8514-8519

  Konvalinka, Ivana ^a   Xygalatas, Dimitris ^a   Bulbulia, Joseph ^b   Schjødt, Uffe ^a   Jegindø, Else Marie ^a   Wallot, Sebastian ^c   Van Orden, Guy ^c   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective effervescence; Mirroring; Recurrence plots; Social anthropology; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIRE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RITUAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPAIN; WALKING;

AROUSAL; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; FIRES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; WALKING;

EID: 79957703309     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016955108     Document Type: Article

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