Interpersonal Synchrony: From Social Perception to Social Interaction

Chétouani, Mohamed; Delaherche, Emilie; Dumas, Guillaume; Cohen, David

doi:10.1017/9781316676202.015

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“…Others have been more specific and offered a range of conditions that are necessary for an interaction to be called synchronous ( Harrist and Waugh, 2002 ). The one condition that many agree on, and that will be the focus here, is that individuals temporally align with each other ( Chetouani et al , 2017 ).…”

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Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits

Hoehl

Fairhurst

Schirmer

2020

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Abstract Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this phenomenon. Here we sought to integrate results around three themes: the stimuli, the mechanisms and the benefits of interactional synchrony. As regards stimuli, we asked what characteristics, apart from temporal regularity, prompt synchronization and found that stimulus modality and complexity are important. The high temporal resolution of the auditory system and the relevance of socio-emotional information endow auditory, multimodal, emotional and somewhat variable and adaptive sequences with particular synchronizing power. Looking at the mechanisms revealed that traditional perspectives emphasizing beat-based representations of others’ signals conflict with more recent work investigating the perception of temporal regularity. Timing processes supported by striato-cortical loops represent any kind of repetitive interval sequence fairly automatically. Additionally, socio-emotional processes supported by posterior superior temporal cortex help endow such sequences with value motivating the extent of synchronizing. Synchronizing benefits arise from an increased predictability of incoming signals and include many positive outcomes ranging from basic information processing at the individual level to the bonding of dyads and larger groups.

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Section: What Mechanisms Support Interactional Synchrony?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits

Hoehl

Fairhurst

Schirmer

2020

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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127

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“…While recent advances have been made in the domain of relating nonverbal synchrony to qualitative aspects of nonverbal behavior (Fujiwara et al, 2020;Altmann et al, 2021a,b), our conceptualization of nonverbal synchrony will be focused on movement dynamics, irrespective of movement quality or direction (Ramseyer, 2020b). Generally speaking, studies on synchrony in interpersonal relationships have increased in recent years (Chetouani et al, 2017), and numerous positive aspects of interactional synchrony and interpersonal relationships have been reported (Chartrand and Lakin, 2013), but nonverbal synchrony between a coach and a client as specified in this paper has, so far, received no attention in coaching psychology. This is unfortunate as phenomena of social coordination are both the product of and contribute to positive interactions (Stel and Vonk, 2010;Koole and Tschacher, 2016;Omer et al, 2019).…”

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Change Process in Coaching: Interplay of Nonverbal Synchrony, Working Alliance, Self-Regulation, and Goal Attainment

Erdös

Ramseyer

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Background: Psychological literature emphasizes that self-regulation is important as goal intentions, goal setting, or implementation intention does not automatically result in effective results in coaching. The question which coaching strategies to apply to strengthening clients' self-regulatory capacities as prerequisites of effective change outcomes remains a black box in coaching.Method: This quantitative study explored clients' self-regulatory mechanisms by addressing how nonverbal synchrony influences clients' cognitive and emotional self-regulation across sessions. One hundred eighty-four coach–client pairs and their evolving change process were observed over 8 months. Video-recorded sessions were assessed with motion energy analysis to automatically capture coach and client nonverbal behavior and quantify nonverbal synchrony at the level of the dyad.Results: Synchrony was differentially associated with clients' post-session questionnaires on result-oriented problem-reflection and self-reflection, affect balance, and working alliance. Network analyses suggested that the association between synchrony and other process variables did not correspond to the previously found positive association between synchrony and positive aspects of alliance or outcome. Instead, this association depended on the level of perceived outcome.Discussion: Coaching success may be predicted by process variables assessed after each session: goal reflection, alliance, and mood all predict successful coaching. The assessment of nonverbal synchrony suggests a state-dependent effect of embodied processes on a coaching outcome that warrants further inspection.

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“…Recent publications have provided overviews of empirical findings ( Rennung and Göritz, 2016 ; Vicaria and Dickens, 2016 ) as well as methods for capturing and analyzing patterns of coordinated movement ( Rein, 2016 ; Chetouani et al, 2017 ; Jakubowski et al, 2017 ). For example, Vicaria and Dickens (2016) presented an exhaustive meta-analysis of interpersonal coordination outcomes, and Rennung and Göritz (2016) did the same with the prosocial consequences of interpersonal synchrony.…”

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Interpersonal Coordination: Methods, Achievements, and Challenges

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Research regarding interpersonal coordination can be traced back to the early 1960s when video recording began to be utilized in communication studies. Since then, technological advances have extended the range of techniques that can be used to accurately study interactional phenomena. Although such a diversity of methods contributes to the improvement of knowledge concerning interpersonal coordination, it has become increasingly difficult to maintain a comprehensive view of the field. In the present article, we review the main capture methods by describing their major findings, levels of description and limitations. We group them into three categories: video analysis, motion tracking, and psychophysiological and neurophysiological techniques. Revised evidence suggests that interpersonal coordination encompasses a family of morphological and temporal synchronies at different levels and that it is closely related to the construction and maintenance of a common social and affective space. We conclude by arguing that future research should address methodological challenges to advance the understanding of coordination phenomena.

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Interpersonal Synchrony: From Social Perception to Social Interaction

Cited by 16 publications

References 57 publications

Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits

Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits

Change Process in Coaching: Interplay of Nonverbal Synchrony, Working Alliance, Self-Regulation, and Goal Attainment

Interpersonal Coordination: Methods, Achievements, and Challenges

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