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Brito, R., Waldzus, S., Schubert, T. W., Sekerdej, M., Louceiro, A. & Simão, C. (2023). Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental small groups by sharing food and drink. European Journal of Social Psychology. 53 (6), 1128-1143

R. C. Brito et al.,  "Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental small groups by sharing food and drink", in European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1128-1143, 2023

@article{brito2023_1716161097569,
	author = "Brito, R. and Waldzus, S. and Schubert, T. W. and Sekerdej, M. and Louceiro, A. and Simão, C.",
	title = "Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental small groups by sharing food and drink",
	journal = "European Journal of Social Psychology",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "53",
	number = "6",
	doi = "10.1002/ejsp.2956",
	pages = "1128-1143",
	url = "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10990992"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental small groups by sharing food and drink
T2  - European Journal of Social Psychology
VL  - 53
IS  - 6
AU  - Brito, R.
AU  - Waldzus, S.
AU  - Schubert, T. W.
AU  - Sekerdej, M.
AU  - Louceiro, A.
AU  - Simão, C.
PY  - 2023
SP  - 1128-1143
SN  - 0046-2772
DO  - 10.1002/ejsp.2956
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10990992
AB  - Relational models theory provides an alternative framework to study group and intergroup processes. One of four models people use to constitute groups is communal sharing (CS). Ethnographic and experimental evidence suggests that CS is produced by concrete and symbolic enactments of connections between bodies (cuddling, touching, synchronicity, commensality). We tested the effect of commensality on CS and ingroup favouritism in four Experiments with 3-person groups (total n = 330) and found that commensality enhances emergent group communal sharing but does not enhance ingroup favouritism. In Experiment 1, sharing food enhanced ingroup communal sharing but in Experiment 2 this effect was not significant. In Experiments 3 and 4, sharing water enhanced communal sharing, but only when served from the same bottle, implying consubstantial assimilation. Ingroup favouritism was not enhanced by commensality in any experiment, even when explicitly presented as exclusively ingroup (Experiment 2), suggesting non-comparative group formation through ingroup commensality.
ER  -