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ArticleScientific reports2015

Social priming enhances interpersonal synchronization and feeling of connectedness towards schizophrenia patients.

Stéphane Raffard, Robin N Salesse, Ludovic Marin, Jonathan Del-Monte, Richard C Schmidt, Manuel Varlet, Benoit G Bardy, Jean-Philippe Boulenger, Delphine Capdevielle

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Stéphane Raffard1] University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France [2] Epsylon Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities &Health Behaviors, Montpellier-3 University, Montpellier, France.
Robin N SalesseMovement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France.
Ludovic MarinMovement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France.
Jonathan Del-Monte1] University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France [2] Epsylon Laboratory Dynamic of Human Abilities &Health Behaviors, Montpellier-3 University, Montpellier, France [3] Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France.
Richard C SchmidtPsychology Department, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA.
Manuel Varlet1] Movement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France [2] The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Benoit G BardyMovement to Health Laboratory, EuroMov, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France.
Jean-Philippe Boulenger1] University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France [2] INSERM U-1061, Montpellier, France.
Delphine Capdevielle1] University Department of Adult Psychiatry, Hôpital de la Colombière, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier-1 University, Montpellier, France [2] INSERM U-1061, Montpellier, France.
Université de Montpellier · FRInserm · FRCollege of the Holy Cross · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What leads healthy individuals to abnormal feelings of contact with schizophrenia patients remains obscure. Despite recent findings that human bonding is an interactive process influenced by coordination dynamics, the spatiotemporal organization of the bodily movements of schizophrenia patients when interacting with other people is poorly understood. Interpersonal motor coordination between dyads of patients (n = 45) or healthy controls (n = 45), and synchronization partners (n = 90), was assessed with a hand-held pendulum task following implicit exposure to pro-social, non-social, or anti-social primes. We evaluated the socio-motor competence and the feeling of connectedness between participants and their synchronization partners with a measure of motor coordination stability. Immediately after the coordination task, all participants were also asked to rate the likeableness of their interacting partner. Our results showed greater stability during interpersonal synchrony in schizophrenia patients who received pro-social priming, inducing in their synchronization partner greater feelings of connectedness towards patients. This greater feeling of connectedness was positively correlated with stronger motor synchronization between participants suggesting that motor coordination partly underlies patients' social interactions and feelings of contact with others. Pro-social priming can have a pervasive effect on abnormal social interactions in schizophrenia patients.

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EmotionsInterpersonal RelationsAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychomotor PerformanceSchizophreniaSchizophrenic PsychologySociometric Techniques

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