People decided to start or stop clapping not based on what they saw, but rather on what they heard. Mann and colleagues made a couple of other interesting observations.
People stop clapping for the same reason. If 50% of the audience was clapping, for example, individuals were 10 times more likely to start clapping than if 5% of the audience was clapping. Individuals were more likely to start clapping if a larger percentage of the audience had already started, Mann's group reports online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Then the team took the videos back to the lab and analyzed them.Īpplause, it turns out, is a bit like peer pressure. He and colleagues filmed groups of 13 to 20 students at the University of Leeds who were clapping after a number of different oral presentations by undergraduate and postgraduate students. But researchers didn't fully understand the dynamics of what happens in the audience.Įnter Richard Mann, a mathematician at Uppsala University in Sweden. It begins with a few individuals and then catches on with more and more people until everyone is "infected." And as the applause dies down, the pandemic disappears. A new study reveals that audience response has more to do with the people in the seats than those up on stage.Īpplause is a bit like a pandemic, according to previous research. The next time you hear extended applause for a performance you didn't think was that great, don't feel like a snob.
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