The effect of social settings and olfactory environments on spontaneous movement synchrony.

Interpersonal synchrony refers to the temporal coordination between two individuals, signaling the coupling of their behaviors. Optimal movement synchrony in dyads is linked to more affiliative behavior, cooperation, and trust. However, there is limited research on how the sensory environment impacts interpersonal synchrony.

Physiological audience synchrony in classical concerts linked with listeners' experiences and attitudes.

A series of eleven public concerts (staging chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, Johannes Brahms) was organized with the goal to analyze physiological synchronies within the audiences and associations of synchrony with psychological variables. We hypothesized that the music would induce synchronized physiology, which would be linked to participants' aesthetic experiences, affect, and personality traits. Physiological measures (cardiac, electrodermal, respiration) of 695 participants were recorded during presentations.

Exploring the role of emotions and conversation content in interpersonal synchrony: A case study of a couple therapy session.

Objective: This exploratory study investigated the association between interpersonal movement and physiological synchronies, emotional processing, and the conversational structure of a couple therapy session using a multimodal, mixed-method approach.

Method: The video recordings of a couple therapy session, in which the participants' electrodermal activity was recorded, were analyzed. The session was divided into topical episodes, a qualitative analysis was conducted on each topical episode's emotional aspects, conversational structure and content.

The pairwise approximate spatiotemporal symmetry algorithm: A method for segmenting time series pairs.

Methods that measure the association between two intensively measured time series are of interest to researchers studying the symmetry of behaviors during social interaction. Such methods have historically focused on aggregating the amount of symmetry across all measurement occasions. However, it is rarely expected that symmetry is present at all measurement occasions.