Physiological synchrony is associated with attraction in a blind date setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Prochazkova ◽  
E. Sjak-Shie ◽  
F. Behrens ◽  
D. Lindh ◽  
M. E. Kret
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Synchrony

Parent‐adolescent physiological synchrony: Moderating effects of adolescent emotional insecurity

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Li ◽  
Melissa L. Sturge‐Apple ◽  
Siwei Liu ◽  
Patrick T. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Emotional Insecurity ◽  
Physiological Synchrony

scholarly journals Physiological synchrony is associated with cooperative success in real-life interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Behrens ◽  
J. A. Snijdewint ◽  
R. G. Moulder ◽  
E. Prochazkova ◽  
E. E. Sjak-Shie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Skin Conductance Level ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Dyadic Interaction ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Physiological Synchrony ◽  
Skin Conductance Levels ◽  
The Face

AbstractCooperation is pivotal for society to flourish. To foster cooperation, humans express and read intentions via explicit signals and subtle reflections of arousal visible in the face. Evidence is accumulating that humans synchronize these nonverbal expressions and the physiological mechanisms underlying them, potentially influencing cooperation. The current study is designed to verify this putative linkage between synchrony and cooperation. To that end, 152 participants played the Prisoner’s Dilemma game in a dyadic interaction setting, sometimes facing each other and sometimes not. Results showed that synchrony in both heart rate and skin conductance level emerged during face-to-face contact. However, only synchrony in skin conductance levels predicted cooperative success of dyads. Crucially, this positive linkage was strengthened when participants could see each other. These findings show the strong relationship between our bodily responses and social behavior, and emphasize the importance of studying social processes between rather than within individuals in real-life interactions.

scholarly journals Matching self-reports with electrodermal activity data: Investigating temporal changes in self-regulated learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 1785-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhterem Dindar ◽  
Jonna Malmberg ◽  
Sanna Järvelä ◽  
Eetu Haataja ◽  
Paul A. Kirschner
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Cognitive Regulation ◽  
Physiological Synchrony ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data

AbstractThis study investigated the interplay of temporal changes in self-regulated learning processes (i.e., behavioral, cognitive, motivational and emotional) and their relationship with academic achievement in computer-supported collaborative learning. The study employed electrodermal activity and self-report data to capture the dynamicity of self-regulated learning processes during 15 sessions of collaborative learning activities. Our findings revealed that the changes in motivational regulation was related to academic achievement. However, academic achievement was not related to behavioral regulation, cognitive regulation or emotional regulation. Physiological synchrony among the collaborating students was found to be related only to cognitive regulation. The results also showed that the concordance of self-report data among the collaborating students was related to higher physiological synchrony among them in the behavioral, cognitive, and motivational dimensions of self-regulated learning. The findings reflect the complexity of the relationships between self-regulated learning constructs and demonstrates the potential value of physiological measures in self-regulated learning research.

scholarly journals Physiological Synchrony in EEG, Electrodermal Activity and Heart Rate Detects Attentionally Relevant Events in Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo V. Stuldreher ◽  
Nattapong Thammasan ◽  
Jan B. F. van Erp ◽  
Anne-Marie Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Stimulus Type ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Physiological Signals ◽  
Independent Group ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Event Type ◽  
Physiological Synchrony ◽  
Electroencephalogram Eeg ◽  
Over Time

Interpersonal physiological synchrony (PS), or the similarity of physiological signals between individuals over time, may be used to detect attentionally engaging moments in time. We here investigated whether PS in the electroencephalogram (EEG), electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate and a multimodal metric signals the occurrence of attentionally relevant events in time in two groups of participants. Both groups were presented with the same auditory stimulus, but were instructed to attend either to the narrative of an audiobook (audiobook-attending: AA group) or to interspersed emotional sounds and beeps (stimulus-attending: SA group). We hypothesized that emotional sounds could be detected in both groups as they are expected to draw attention involuntarily, in a bottom-up fashion. Indeed, we found this to be the case for PS in EDA or the multimodal metric. Beeps, that are expected to be only relevant due to specific “top-down” attentional instructions, could indeed only be detected using PS among SA participants, for EDA, EEG and the multimodal metric. We further hypothesized that moments in the audiobook accompanied by high PS in either EEG, EDA, heart rate or the multimodal metric for AA participants would be rated as more engaging by an independent group of participants compared to moments corresponding to low PS. This hypothesis was not supported. Our results show that PS can support the detection of attentionally engaging events over time. Currently, the relation between PS and engagement is only established for well-defined, interspersed stimuli, whereas the relation between PS and a more abstract self-reported metric of engagement over time has not been established. As the relation between PS and engagement is dependent on event type and physiological measure, we suggest to choose a measure matching with the stimulus of interest. When the stimulus type is unknown, a multimodal metric is most robust.

scholarly journals Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning in humans

2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1927) ◽  
pp. 20192779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Pärnamets ◽  
Lisa Espinosa ◽  
Andreas Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System Activity ◽  
System Activity ◽  
Autonomic Nervous ◽  
Nervous System Activity ◽  
Interpersonal Synchrony ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Physiological Synchrony ◽  
Conditioned Responses

Understanding how information about threats in the environment is shared and transmitted between individuals is crucial for explaining adaptive, survival-related behaviour in humans and other animals, and for developing treatments for phobias and other anxiety disorders. Research across species has shown that observing a conspecific’s, a ‘demonstrator’s,’ threat responses causes strong and persistent threat memories in the ‘observer’. Here, we examined if physiological synchrony between demonstrator and observer can serve to predict the strength of observationally acquired conditioned responses. We measured synchrony between demonstrators’ and observers’ phasic electrodermal signals during learning, which directly reflects autonomic nervous system activity. Prior interpersonal synchrony predicted the strength of the observer’s later skin conductance responses to threat predicting stimuli, in the absence of the demonstrator. Dynamic coupling between an observer’s and a demonstrator’s autonomic nervous system activity may reflect experience sharing processes facilitating the formation of observational threat associations.

Development of Emotion Dysregulation in Developing Relationships

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson ◽  
Sara F. Waters
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Physiological Synchrony ◽  
Subsequent Discussion ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

A developmental perspective to emotion dysregulation underscores the relational bases to developing emotion regulation capacities. In this chapter, attachment theory and functionalist emotions theory are discussed as theoretical foundations for understanding emotion dysregulation in the context of developing relationships. In the subsequent discussion of central research literatures, the chapter profiles family processes that contribute to the development of emotionally dysregulated behavior. The interaction of biological and social processes is considered next in discussions of the physiological synchrony between children and parents, the socialization of stress neurobiology, and children’s differential susceptibility to environmental influences and its consequences for emotion regulation and dysregulation. The chapter concludes with reflections on future directions, including the clinical implications of considering developing problems in emotion dysregulation as problems not just of individual children but also of relationships.

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