As the researchers then took note of the audience’s clapping behavior—defined, wonderfully, as “the emergence of self-organized rhythmical patterns”—they made a few counterintuitive ...

The clapping pattern roughly fits a disease model, in which the greater the number of people who have a cold, the more likely you are to get it, Mann said.

• Clapping patterns: The teacher initiates and students gradually join in. • “Clap Once If You Can Hear Me”: a combination of “Give Me Five” and clapping patterns, counting up.

The Clapboss supports six different clap patterns for your clapping pleasure. It ships early next year.

And then, as we went out, after several more drinks, we found ourselves improvising clapping patterns on the street.” Since 1965 Reich had been experimenting with a compositional technique called ...