Moving in and out of synchrony: A concept for a new intervention fostering empathy through interactional movement and dance

Behrends, Andrea; Müller, Sybille; Dziobek, Isabel

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2012.02.003

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“…This confirms the centrality of interaction's role in intersubjectivity, and moreover, that it is possible to investigate this in bodily and experiential ways, which can generate novel insights. The findings we present here are in line with research supporting the use of body therapies in the treatment of various psychiatric disorders, for instance schizophrenia and autism (Behrends et al 2012;Galbusera and Fuchs 2014;Maiese 2016;Martin et al 2016). PRISMA can be used to help further refine ways to test and improve such ideas.…”

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Grasping intersubjectivity: an invitation to embody social interaction research

Jaegher

Pieper²,

Clénin

et al. 2016

Phenom Cogn Sci

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Underlying the recent focus on embodied and interactive aspects of social understanding are several intuitions about what roles the body, interaction processes, and interpersonal experience play. In this paper, we introduce a systematic, hands-on method for investigating the experience of interacting and its role in intersubjectivity. Special about this method is that it starts from the idea that researchers of social understanding are themselves one of the best tools for their own investigations. The method provides ways for researchers to calibrate and to trust themselves as sophisticated instruments to help generate novel insights into human interactive experience. We present the basics of the method, and two empirical studies. The first is a videostudy on autism, which shows greater refinement in the way people with autism embody their social interactions than previously thought. The second is a study of thinking in live interactions, which provides insight into the common feeling that too much thinking can hamper interaction, and into how this kind of interactional awkwardness might be unblocked.

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Grasping intersubjectivity: an invitation to embody social interaction research

Jaegher

Pieper²,

Clénin

et al. 2016

Phenom Cogn Sci

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“…Successful and fluid interactions depend on accurate anticipation and prediction of others' movements, allowing us to attribute affective states, intentions and goals to our interaction partner so that we can adjust our behaviour accordingly (Behrends, Müller, & Dziobek, 2012) typical individuals could learn to interpret atypical expressions could improve intervention strategies and also reduce frustration, social anxiety and mood problems in individuals with autism (Simonoff et al, 2012), who may express their internal states but be frequently misunderstood.…”

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Interaction takes two: Typical adults exhibit mind-blindness towards those with autism spectrum disorder.

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Cook²,

Brewer³

et al. 2016

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Recent work suggests that we are better at interpreting the movements of others who move like us, and that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) move in a quantifiably different way from typical individuals. Therefore, 'social impairments' exhibited by individuals with ASD may, at least in part, represent a failure by typical individuals to infer the correct mental states from the movements of those with ASD. To examine this possibility, individuals with ASD and typical adults manually directed two triangles to generate animations depicting mental state interactions. Kinematic analysis of the generated animations demonstrated that the participants with ASD moved atypically, specifically with increased jerk compared to the typical participants. In confirmation of our primary hypothesis, typical individuals were better able to identify the mental state portrayed in the animations produced by typical, relative to autistic individuals. The participants with ASD did not show this 'same group' advantage, demonstrating comparable performance for the two sets of animations. These findings have significant implications for clinical assessment and intervention in ASD, and potentially other populations with atypical movement.

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“…Others have attempted to foster empathy through video simulation (Kajganich, 2014) or virtual reality (Cheng et al, 2010). Some even suggest dance therapy may nurture empathic skills by providing an environment where imitation, synchronous movement, and motoric cooperation can be practiced, potentially fostering physical as well as emotional aspects of empathy (Behrends et al, 2012). These methods could be explored in people with schizophrenia disorders.…”

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confidence: 99%