Recent clashes between protestors and riot gear-clad police in Ferguson, Missouri, have raised questions about the militarization of police departments. Marching in unison may give armies a confidence boost, but synchronized behavior can have a dark side, Fessler said. We're motivated and capable, and we have it together.'" "The coyotes are screaming at the coyotes on the other side of the hill, but they're also patting each other on the back," Fessler said. He compared the findings to the behavior of two packs of coyotes howling at one another across the hills of Southern California. The new study suggests that the act of marching itself makes the soldiers see potential enemies as less frightening. "Modern armies all around the world have drill practice, where they march around even though marching around has nothing to do with fighting," Fessler told Live Science. The men who had synchronized their walk rated the angry man as shorter and smaller than the men who had walked naturally, Fessler and his colleagues reported today (Aug. The researchers asked them to estimate the man's height, his overall body size and his muscularity. In the other half, they were asked to walk in unison with the other man.Īfter walking, the men were shown a mug shot of an angry male face. In half of the cases, the men were told to walk normally. In the new study, the researchers recruited 96 men and asked them to walk 800 feet (244 meters) alongside another man, who was actually an employee working with the researchers. Their previous work found that men in groups evaluate potential threats as less dangerous than single men do. Fessler and his colleagues conducted their most recent study as part of a long-running Air Force-funded project on how people make decisions in situations of potential conflict.
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