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Evaluating the Dynamics of Unintended Interpersonal Coordination
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Past research has shown that interpersonal interactions are characterized by a tacit coordination of motor movements of the participants and has suggested that the emergent synchrony might be explained by a coupled oscillator dynamic. This study investigates whether unintended between-person coordination can be demonstrated in a laboratory task that will allow an evaluation of whether such dynamical processes are involved. Ten pairs of participants performed a simple rhythmic task in which they had visual information about each other's movements but had no goal to coordinate. A cross-spectral analysis of the movements revealed higher coherence and a distribution of relative phase angles that was dominated by values near 0 deg. and 180 deg. These results support the hypothesis that dynamical organizing principles are involved in natural interpersonal synchrony.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmidt, R. C., & O'Brien, B.
- Venue
- Ecological Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1997-09
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 189-206
- ISSN
- 1040-7413 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-6969
- OpenAlex
- W2055826648
- Cited by
- 347
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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