The physical act of moving in sync can boost cooperation between strangers, research suggests, including those who might have the most time and energy for it: Young children. In an experiment, pairs of 4-year-olds who swung in time with each other on swings performed better in subsequent collaborative games--which involved pushing buttons and passing objects--than children who swung out of sync or didn't swing together at all...../continues.

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