The Self-Organization of Human Interaction

Dale, Rick; Fusaroli, Riccardo; Duran, Nicholas D.; Richardson, Daniel C.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-407187-2.00002-2

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“…However, consistent with the view that social phenomena can be self-organizing (Coey, Varlet, & Richardson, 2012;Dale, Fusaroli, Duran, & Richardson, 2013;Kelso, 1995;Marsh, 2013;Schmidt & Richardson, 2008) we suggest there is also utility in identifying the relational structures that emerge between individuals, and how these give rise to new opportunities for interaction (Mathieu, Maynard, Rapp, & Gilson, 2008;Richardson, Marsh, & Baron, 2007). Thus, beyond the piecemeal identification of social-cognitive attunements promoted by synchronous acts, further emphasis should now be placed on understanding how such outcomes shape the emergent properties of joint action contexts and, in turn, impact dependencies between team members.…”

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Coordination Matters: Interpersonal Synchrony Influences Collaborative Problem-Solving

Miles¹,

Lumsden²,

Flannigan³

et al. 2017

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Moving in time with others is a central characteristic of social life and has been shown to promote a host of social-cognitive attunements (e.g., person memory, affiliation, prosociality) for those involved. Less attention has been paid, however, to how the effects of coordination can serve higher-order goal-directed social behaviour. Here we explored whether interpersonal synchrony impacts performance on a collaborative problem-solving task. One hundred and ninety two participants completed a short movement exercise in pairs whereby coordination mode was manipulated (in-phase synchrony, asynchrony, control). Each pair then jointly discussed a problem-solving exercise while the degree to which coordination spontaneously emerged was assessed. The results revealed that collaboration was more effective following in-phase coordination. Of theoretical significance, both instructed and spontaneous synchrony were associated with better performance, with the short-term history of each dyad shaping precisely when coordination was functional. Overall, the synchronization of body movements appears to support effective collaboration.

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Coordination Matters: Interpersonal Synchrony Influences Collaborative Problem-Solving

Miles¹,

Lumsden²,

Flannigan³

et al. 2017

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“…Social coordination relies heavily on language, but nonverbal behaviors also play a crucial role in forming and maintaining cooperative relationships (1). Laughter is a common nonverbal vocalization that universally manifests across a broad range of contexts, and is often associated with prosocial intent and positive emotions (2-5), although it can also be used in a threatening or aggressive manner (2).…”

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Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies

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Fessler

Fusaroli

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Laughter is a nonverbal vocal expression that often communicates positive affect and cooperative intent in humans. Temporally coincident laughter occurring within groups is a potentially rich cue of affiliation to overhearers. We examined listeners’ judgments of affiliation based on brief, decontextualized instances of colaughter between either established friends or recently acquainted strangers. In a sample of 966 participants from 24 societies, people reliably distinguished friends from strangers with an accuracy of 53–67%. Acoustic analyses of the individual laughter segments revealed that, across cultures, listeners’ judgments were consistently predicted by voicing dynamics, suggesting perceptual sensitivity to emotionally triggered spontaneous production. Colaughter affords rapid and accurate appraisals of affiliation that transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries, and may constitute a universal means of signaling cooperative relationships.

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“…The high entrainment that we observed could be what allowed the participants to reach this multi-level, multimodal coordination (Dale et al, 2013).…”

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“…Interpersonal coordination in dyads and groups can either occur by matching behaviors, such as gestures, posture, or vocabulary, or as continuous synchronization (Bernieri and Rosenthal, 1991;Dale et al, 2013). Both types of coordination occur in natural conversations, but from an experimental perspective, both have complications.…”

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Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Holler

Kendrick

Casillas

et al. 2016

Frontiers Research Topics

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The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking such as its timing are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages -- with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals -- do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This research topic welcomes contributions from right across the board, for example from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialogue and conversation analysis, linguists interested in the use of language, phoneticians, corpus analysts and comparative ethologists or psychologists. We welcome contributions of all sorts, for example original research papers, opinion pieces, and reviews of work in subfields that may not be fully understood in other subfields

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The Self-Organization of Human Interaction

Cited by 194 publications

References 185 publications

Coordination Matters: Interpersonal Synchrony Influences Collaborative Problem-Solving

Coordination Matters: Interpersonal Synchrony Influences Collaborative Problem-Solving

Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

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