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Are we on the same wavelength? Interpersonal complementarity as shared cyclical patterns during interactions

Sadler, Pamela, Ethier, Nicole, Gunn, Gregory R., Duong, David, Woody, Erik·2009·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Abstract

The present study addressed hypotheses about cyclical entrainment between interacting dyad members in their moment-to-moment levels of dominance and affiliation. Using a computer joystick technique, observers recorded the continuous stream of behavior for each partner in 50 mixed-sex dyads, and the data for each dyad were submitted to time-series analyses, including cross-spectral analysis. Although potentially interesting individual differences emerged, in most dyads, partners shared behavior cycles of roughly the same frequency with strongly correlated variations in amplitude (coherence). Consistent with interpersonal theory, partners' affiliation behaviors were very strongly in phase, whereas their dominance behaviors were equally strongly out of phase. In addition, these cyclical forms of interpersonal complementarity were distinguishable from other forms, such as mutual adjustment in overall levels.

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Authors
Sadler, P., Ethier, N., Gunn, G. R., Duong, D., & Woody, E.
Affiliations
  • Wilfrid Laurier University (CA)
  • University of Waterloo (CA)
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Published
2009-12
Volume
97
Issue
6
Pages
1005-1020
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
OpenAlex
W2050577868
Cited by
216
References
70
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SRG 71848)
  • Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (RGPGP 283352)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Keywords
interpersonal complementarity, interpersonal synchrony, dominance behavior, dyadic interaction, cross-spectral coherence, phase synchronization, mixed-sex dyads, interpersonal theory, mutual adaptation
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Periodicity, Psychometrics, Social Behavior, Social Dominance, Students, Videotape Recording, Reproducibility of Results

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