48 research outputs found
Sync or sink? Interpersonal synchrony impacts self-esteem
Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Who is approachable?
"The consequences of social interaction can be variable, sometimes harmful, but often rewarding. The adaptive social perceiver must therefore determine which interactions are worthwhile pursuing and which are not. The present research investigated whether subtle but meaningful differences in facial expressions are perceived in terms of the affordance of approachability. Participants engaged in simulated social encounters with targets displaying enjoyment smiles, non-enjoyment smiles or neutral expressions while fluctuations in their posture were measured. The results indicated systematic differences in perceived approachability as a function of facial expression and target sex. These findings are discussed in terms of the functional coupling between social perception and action with respect to the information that specifies the affordance of approachability." [author's abstract
Visual perspective and the characteristics of mind wandering
Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Coordination Matters : Interpersonal Synchrony Influences Collaborative Problem-Solving
The authors thank Martha von Werthern and Caitlin Taylor for their assistance with data collection, Cathy Macpherson for her assistance with the preparation of the manuscript, and Mike Richardson, Alex Paxton, and Rick Dale for providing MATLAB code to assist with data analysis. The research was funded by the British Academy (SG131613).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
When Imagining Yourself in Pain, Visual Perspective Matters : The Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Simulated Sensory Experiences
© 2015 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPeer reviewedPublisher PD
The rhythm of rapport: interpersonal synchrony and social perception
The temporal coordination of behavior during dyadic interactions is a foundation for effective social exchange with synchronized actions enhancing perceptions of rapport and interpersonal connectedness. What has yet to be established, however, are the precise characteristics of behavioral coordination that give rise to such effects. Informed by a dynamical systems approach, the current investigation considered whether judgments of rapport are influenced by the mode of interpersonal synchrony. In two experiments, participants rated the degree of rapport manifest by a simulated pair of walkers exhibiting various configurations of synchronized strides. The results revealed that the highest levels of rapport were associated with the most stable forms of interpersonal coordination (i.e., in-phase and anti-phase synchrony), regardless of whether coordination between the walkers was conveyed via the presentation of visual (Expt. 1a) or auditory (Expt. 1b) cues. These findings underscore the importance of interpersonal coordination to core aspects of social perception
Coordination and Collective Performance : Cooperative Goals Boost Interpersonal Synchrony and Task Outcomes
Acknowledgments The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Cathy Macpherson and Hope Fawcett-Lipscombe with data collection and coding as well as Mike Richardson for generously sharing Matlab code and providing invaluable guidance. Supplementary Material The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01462Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Your space or mine? : Mapping self in time
Peer reviewedPublisher PD
The anatomy of the NGC 5044 group - I. Group membership and dynamics
We use a combination of new AAOmega multi-object wide-field spectroscopic
observations and literature data to define 111 spectroscopically confirmed
members of the massive NGC 5044 group with M_B <= -13.5 mag, providing a
three-fold increase in group members over previous analyses of this group. We
find the group to have a dynamical mass of 9.2 x 10^13 solar masses, placing it
on the border between rich groups and poor clusters. However, comparison to the
L_x-sigma and L_x-mass relations shows it more closely follows cluster scaling
relations. Using a combination of crossing time, X-ray contours and
line-of-sight velocity profile we are able to preclude growth of the NGC 5044
group via major sub-group mergers within the last ~1 Gyr. While the majority of
dynamical indicators for the group suggest it is virialised, we find evidence
for a small, dynamically distinct sub-group at 1.4 Mpc from the group centre,
suggesting that the NGC 5044 group is the dominant structure in its local
environment, and is currently accreting smaller groups.Comment: 18 pages, 17 figures, accepted by MNRAS. Updated to match proof
versio