Syncing to perform? A naturalistic uncontrolled prospective case study of emotional and physiological synchrony in a team of male volleyball athletes

Tamminen, Katherine Anne; Danyluck, Chad; Bonk, Devin; Chen, Ruochen

doi:10.1080/02640414.2023.2259205

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Synchrony within, synchrony without: establishing the link between interpersonal behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony during role-play

Lim,

Carollo,

Bizzego

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Interpersonal synchrony is a crucial construct in understanding social interactions, which has been used in clinical studies to measure the quality of the therapeutic alliance. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the correlation between synchrony expressed on different levels: behavioural and neurophysiological. Furthermore, there are no studies that examine how the implementation of psychodramatic role-playing techniques, when individuals adopt the persona of a different character, may influence intrinsic biobehavioural synchrony between two parties. The present study, therefore, aims to uncover the relationship between behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony across different role-playing techniques and elucidate the impact of these synchronies on participants’ levels of anxiety and empathy. By using functional near-infrared imaging and behavioural coding in a dyadic role-playing paradigm ( n = 41 dyads), the study found correlations between behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony during naturalistic conversations, but not during role-play, implying a qualitative change in interpersonal synchrony when implementing role-playing techniques. Additionally, the study noted significant contributions of both behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony as well as peripheral factors such as dyadic sex make-up and role immersion in predicting dyadic anxiety and empathy changes. Findings call for future studies to consider role-playing scenarios as a qualitatively different form of social interaction.

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Synchrony within, synchrony without: establishing the link between interpersonal behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony during role-play

Lim,

Carollo,

Bizzego

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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"Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden " Analyzing Micro-communication Strategies between Visually Impaired Runners and their Guides

Barbareschi,

Kumar,

Kim

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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How and Why People Synchronize: An Integrated Perspective

daSilva,

Wood

2024

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Academic Abstract Interpersonal synchrony, the alignment of behavior and/or physiology during interactions, is a pervasive phenomenon observed in diverse social contexts. Here we synthesize across contexts and behaviors to classify the different forms and functions of synchrony. We provide a concise framework for classifying the manifold forms of synchrony along six dimensions: periodicity, discreteness, spatial similarity, directionality, leader–follower dynamics, and observability. We also distill the various proposed functions of interpersonal synchrony into four interconnected functions: reducing complexity and improving understanding, accomplishing joint tasks, strengthening social connection, and influencing partners’ behavior. These functions derive from first principles, emerge from each other, and are accomplished by some forms of synchrony more than others. Effective synchrony flexibly adapts to social goals and more synchrony is not always better. Our synthesis offers a shared framework and language for the field, allowing for better cross-context and cross-behavior comparisons, generating new hypotheses, and highlighting future research directions.

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Syncing to perform? A naturalistic uncontrolled prospective case study of emotional and physiological synchrony in a team of male volleyball athletes

Cited by 3 publications

References 77 publications

Synchrony within, synchrony without: establishing the link between interpersonal behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony during role-play

Synchrony within, synchrony without: establishing the link between interpersonal behavioural and brain-to-brain synchrony during role-play

"Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden " Analyzing Micro-communication Strategies between Visually Impaired Runners and their Guides

How and Why People Synchronize: An Integrated Perspective

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