Synchronization in Groups and Societies

Nowak, Andrzej; Vallacher, Robin R.; Praszkier, Ryszard; Rychwalska, Agnieszka; Żochowski, Michał

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38987-1_6

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“…Extroverted dyads, in contrast (thus without introverts), showed more flexible, less predictable, and less consistent conversations (fewer laminar states) but enjoyed these conversations more. As simulated and reported by Nowak et al (2002Nowak et al ( , 2020, in interactions between dissimilar individuals, one of them is likely to adopt the behavior of the interacting partner subsequently (a process known as social influence), especially when the partner's behavior is strong and somehow corresponds to a "positive" state, which could also be linked to dominant behaviors (see Depue & Collins, 1999;Larsen et al, 2020). In other words, one of the interactants is likely to change their behavior to foster synchronization, thus s/he leaves their own equilibrium (baseline) to match the attractor state of the other individual (Nowak et al, 2020).…”

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“…The interacting partner in a dyad is henceforth understood as the psychological environment in which each individual is engaged, and where individual differences surface (Asendorf, 2017;Leary, 1957;Roche & Cain, 2021;Sullivan et al, 1953). Individuals tend to synchronize more readily when they possess similar features (similarity) which could be perceived from body motion information associated with personality traits (e.g., Koppensteiner, 2013), as behavioral states are theorized to synchronize more readily when smaller system adjustments are required to reach a dyadic attractor state with systemic stability (Nowak et al, 2020;Rivera et al, 2010), which connects dyadic synchronization to improved person-environment fit (e.g., Van Vianen, 2018;Vleugels et al, 2022).…”

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The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization

Arellano-Véliz

Jeronimus

Kunnen

et al. 2023

Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveIn social interactions, humans tend to naturally synchronize their body movements. We investigated interpersonal synchronization in conversations and examined its relationship with personality differences and post‐interaction appraisals.MethodIn a 15‐minute semi‐structured conversation, 56 previously‐unfamiliar dyads introduced themselves, followed by self‐disclosing and argumentative conversations. Their bodily movements were video‐recorded in a standardized room (112 young adults, aged 18–33, mean = 20.54, SD = 2.74; 58% Dutch, 31% German, 11% other). Interpersonal bodily synchronization was estimated as (a) synchronization strength using Windowed Lagged Cross‐Correlations and (b) Dynamic Organization (Determinism/Entropy/Laminarity/Mean Line) using Cross‐Recurrence Quantification Analysis. Bodily synchronization was associated with differences in Agreeableness and Extraversion (IPIP‐NEO‐120) and post‐conversational appraisals (affect/closeness/enjoyment) in mixed‐effect models.ResultsAgreeable participants exhibited higher complexity in bodily synchronization dynamics (higher Entropy) than disagreeable individuals, who also reported more negative affect afterward. Interpersonal synchronization was stronger among extroverts than among introverts and extroverts appraised conversations as more positive and enjoyable. Bodily synchronization strength and dynamic organization were related to the type of conversation (self‐disclosing/argumentative).ConclusionsInterpersonal dynamics were intimately connected to differences in Agreeableness and Extraversion, varied across situations, and these parameters affected how pleasant, close, and enjoyable each conversation felt.

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The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization

Arellano-Véliz

Jeronimus

Kunnen

et al. 2023

Journal of Personality

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“…The orchestrated activity of neural populations has been postulated to be one of the key mechanisms underlying brain functions 13 . At a microscopic level, individual neurons exhibit hardly predictable firing rates, with a nonnegligible stochastic component.…”

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Bridging functional and anatomical neural connectivity through cluster synchronization

Baruzzi

Lodi

Sorrentino³

et al. 2023

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The dynamics of the brain results from the complex interplay of several neural populations and is affected by both the individual dynamics of these areas and their connection structure. Hence, a fundamental challenge is to derive models of the brain that reproduce both structural and functional features measured experimentally. Our work combines neuroimaging data, such as dMRI, which provides information on the structure of the anatomical connectomes, and fMRI, which detects patterns of approximate synchronous activity between brain areas. We employ cluster synchronization as a tool to integrate the imaging data of a subject into a coherent model, which reconciles structural and dynamic information. By using data-driven and model-based approaches, we refine the structural connectivity matrix in agreement with experimentally observed clusters of brain areas that display coherent activity. The proposed approach leverages the assumption of homogeneous brain areas; we show the robustness of this approach when heterogeneity between the brain areas is reintroduced in the form of noise, parameter mismatches, and connection delays. As a proof of concept, we apply this approach to MRI data of a healthy adult at resting state.

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“…Interaction dynamics, contact dynamics and information flow in a corporate setting unite aspects of excitable dynamics (as in the case of rumour spreading, [44]) or synchronisation [45,46]. But also chaotic dynamics have been employed to model decision dynamics and activity in corporate settings [47][48][49].…”

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A stylised view on structural and functional connectivity in dynamical processes in networks

Voutsa¹,

Battaglia²,

Bracken³

et al. 2021

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The relationship of network structure and dynamics is one of most extensively investigated problems in the theory of complex systems of the last years. Understanding this relationship is of relevance to a range of disciplines -from Neuroscience to Geomorphology. A major strategy of investigating this relationship is the quantitative comparison of a representation of network architecture (structural connectivity) with a (network) representation of the dynamics (functional connectivity). Analysing such SC/FC relationships has over the past years contributed substantially to our understanding of the functional role of network properties, such as modularity, hierarchical organization, hubs and cycles.Here, we show that one can distinguish two classes of functional connectivity -one based on simultaneous activity (co-activity) of nodes the other based on sequential activity of nodes. We delineate these two classes in different categories of dynamical processesexcitations, regular and chaotic oscillators -and provide examples for SC/FC correlations of both classes in each of these models. We expand the theoretical view of the SC/FC relationships, with conceptual instances of the SC and the two classes of FC for various application scenarios in Geomorphology, Freshwater Ecology, Systems Biology, Neuroscience and Social-Ecological Systems.Seeing the organization of a dynamical processes in a network either as governed by coactivity or by sequential activity allows us to bring some order in the myriad of observations relating structure and function of complex networks.

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Synchronization in Groups and Societies

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The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization

The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization

Bridging functional and anatomical neural connectivity through cluster synchronization

A stylised view on structural and functional connectivity in dynamical processes in networks

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