Clapping hands like a seal, who started this style and kept it going, (wokeness or peer pressure)?

grahamg said:
Amazing dog connection on this and other threads recently, cue "Des" (the man), and clip of elaborate ball skills, to follow! :)
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Cant find the video clip I'm looking for yet, so here is a picture of "Des" on his holidays three years ago in the North East of England, (he didn't know what to make of the first wave crashing in on the beach later btw):

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Alligatorob said:
No, but I will look now.
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Here's some research you may find interesting too:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3571727/

Quote:
"Clapping is a little-studied human activity that may be viewed either as a form of communicative group behavior (applause) or as an individual sound-generating activity involving two "articulators"--the hands. The latter aspect was explored in this pilot study by means of acoustical analyses and perceptual experiments. Principal components analysis of 20 subjects' average clap spectra yielded several dimensions of interindividual variation that were related to observed hand configuration. This relationship emerged even more clearly in a similar analysis of a single clapper's deliberately varied productions. In perception experiments, subjects proved sensitive to spectral properties of claps: For a single clapper, at least, listeners were able to judge hand configuration with good accuracy. Besides providing some general information on individual variations in clapping, the present results support the general hypothesis that sound emanating from a natural source informs listeners about the changing states of the source mechanism."

And more here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18539-9

Quote:
"Humans clapping together in unison is a familiar and robust example of emergent synchrony. We find that in experiments, such groups (from two to a few hundred) always increase clapping frequency, and larger groups increase more quickly. Based on single-person experiments and modeling, an individual tendency to rush is ruled out as an explanation. Instead, an asymmetric sensitivity in aural interactions explains the frequency increase, whereby individuals correct more strongly to match neighbour claps that precede their own clap, than those that follow it. A simple conceptual coupled oscillator model based on this interaction recovers the main features observed in experiments, and shows that the collective frequency increase is driven by the small timing errors in individuals, and the resulting inter-individual interactions that occur to maintain unison."
 
I quote word for word from our local paper on Feb. 7th. This was in a letter to the editor:

"Useless hand gestures by television personalities are annoying. Ten years ago, the hosts, hostesses and announcers on television networks such as CTV and CBC did not wave their hands in meaningless gestures. Please stop if you are guilty of these practises.
We are not talking here about professional hand speakers, who sign language is impressive and meaningful for those who live without vocal communication."
 
Anyone enjoying the "doggie theme" on this thread, (and others with similarly little to do with the thread topic?)?

Personally I think its quite a good thing, and those clapping dogs above well worth the effort of finding the video clip! :)
 
Babies clap their hands when something pleases them. This suggests that it is natural behaviour, not something learned.
 
I watched an old video yesterday of James Taylor in concert, singing his well known hits and lesser known songs, and backed or accompanied by the incomparable and great Carole King, (as a very young woman playing piano whilst he sang a track she had written starting: "When you're tired and weary,....., call my name out loud and you know I'll come knocking at your door,......, You just call out my name and you know I'll come running" etc., etc.).

Anyway, the connection with the thread OP, and title is I took particular notice when the show ended to the way the audience applauded, and would you believe it, there were a few "clapping like seals", even then, maybe forty or more years ago, though the majority were " normal" (I'm glad to report!).
 


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