Source note · R054
Shared flow and emotional synchrony through group instrumental improvisation: a feasibility study of music-based social connection
A small improvisation feasibility study explores reported flow and connection without establishing a treatment effect.
- Setting
- Related music & arts
- Kind of evidence
- Intervention studies
- Review extent
- Selected sections reviewed
What was studied
Eight students in two quartets completed musical and verbal group activities in a fixed sequence.
What it contributes
Participants reported high flow in both kinds of activity, with no significant comparison establishing a music advantage.
Where the evidence stops
The sample is very small, and order and familiarity are confounded. Reported emotional synchrony is not a demonstrated clinical outcome or evidence of community band health effects.
About this review
This is a targeted review of selected sections. The record should not be read as an appraisal of the entire work.
Publisher-deposited metadata checked; this is not a new full-text appraisal.
Source note updated September 7, 2026. Read our approach to evidence.