Mimicry-based emotion contagion and social appraisal currently provide the most popular explanations for interpersonal emotional convergence. However, neither process fully accounts for intragroup effects involving dynamic calibration of people’s orientations during communal activities. When group members are engaged in shared tasks, they simultaneously attend to the same unfolding events and arrive at mutually entrained movement patterns that facilitate emotional coordination. Entrainment may be further cultivated by interaction rituals involving rhythmic music that sets the pace for collective singing, dancing, or marching. These rituals also provide an emotionally meaningful focus for group activities and sometimes specifically encourage the experience of intense embodied states. Intragroup emotion convergence thus depends on interlocking processes of reciprocated and context-attuned orientational calibration and group-based social appraisal.

基于模仿的情绪传染和社会评价目前为人际情绪融合提供了最流行的解释。但是，这两个过程都不​​能完全解决涉及在公共活动中对人的取向进行动态校准的组内效应的问题。当小组成员从事共同的任务时，他们会同时参加相同的活动，并达到相互促进的运动方式，从而促进情绪协调。带有节奏音乐的互动仪式可以进一步培养引诱性，这种节奏为集体唱歌，跳舞或游行的节奏设定了节奏。这些仪式还为小组活动提供了有意义的情感焦点，有时还特别鼓励体验强烈体现的状态。