I think most people figure they’ll clap until the applause dies down. But if everyone were to think like that we would clap forever. How does the audience hive mind, for lack of a better term, stop the applause?
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When one person claps, they wake up the Clapping Monster, who compels everyone else to clap. When the Clapping Monster falls asleep again, people just kinda lose interest. It’s a really sleepy monster.
Sometimes a studio audience is directed to applaud either by a sign, signal, or a “conductor” of sorts. Sometimes during, for instance, a presentation the presenter makes it clear they want to speak and will placate the audience with a gesture, cue, or sound. And sometimes the audience just slowly dies out on its own. Often there will be a general unspoken consensus that it is time to stop and they will fade out on their own, usually after about 5-8 seconds is the limit audiences reasonably applause given the setting and social expectations of the venues.
Either
1. Something else is happening. Like the lights turn on and it’s time to go.
2. As people drop out of applause others are more likely to follow. Cascading into it stopping completely
Every individual still makes their own decisions, one person stops, another stops somewhere else, until just a few are left, they can hear it and also stop, but yeah I think everyone is right, there’s just lots of factors
Depends on where you are. At military events the rule we are usually given when clapping while in a formation is that you all stop clapping when the highest ranking person stops.
If you want to stop an applause you first need to take a lead (works even with audiences with 200+ people) and then just change the tempo to be more slow, progressively dying out.
Here’s another interesting example of the same idea. An audience playing pong by holding up coloured paddles, where the percentage of the audience holding up a green paddle determines how high the team’s pong paddle is on the screen: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9eVz4wBBgU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9eVz4wBBgU)
it is basically a majority vote. you stop clapping when the applause ceases, yes. but you also stop clapping when you think you had clapped enough given the quality of the performance.
Researchers have found that applause spreads like a ‘disease’ though an audience, with applause duration often not connected to the quality of the performance.
You can compare the stoping of it to a pack of fish that slow down together, there is the first one who stops than the other and so on like a domino
In our university, if audience didn’t like some speaker, it continued to applaud untill speaker left the stage.
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