Trial reportPloS one2016
Beyond Synchrony: Joint Action in a Complex Production Task Reveals Beneficial Effects of Decreased Interpersonal Synchrony.
Trial report in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Turning on the we-mode: a systematic review on joint action principles for promoting collective pro-environmental engagement.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Shared music listening, emotional arousal and cognitive empathy enhance social presence in online interactions.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- Influences of Different Types of Interpersonal Synchronization on the Cooperative Behavior of Chinese Children.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- DXSP: gesture-only temporal localization of decisive moments in dyadic persuasion.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2026Article
- Sexism in teams: Exposure to sexist comments increases emotional synchrony but eliminates its benefits for team performance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question-answer pairs.Discourse processes · 2025Article
- Work together, move together-Cooperation and rapport promote interpersonal synchrony.PloS one · 2025Article
- Coordination dynamics of back-and-forth movement among expert performers: interaction in the battle scene of breaking.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect.Developmental science · 2024Article
- An observation of a negative effect of social cohesion on creativity in musical improvisation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- (Mis)align: a simple dynamic framework for modeling interpersonal coordination.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Synchrony to a beat predicts synchrony with other minds.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Physiological Synchrony Predict Task Performance and Negative Emotional State during a Three-Member Collaborative Task.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Being in a crowd bonds people via physiological synchrony.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Interpersonal Physiological Synchrony Predicts Group Cohesion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Trait mindful awareness predicts inter-brain coupling but not individual brain responses during naturalistic face-to-face interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Detecting pattern transitions in psychological time series - A validation study on the Pattern Transition Detection Algorithm (PTDA).PloS one · 2022Article
- Relationship between cardiac cycle and the timing of actions during action execution and observation.Cognition · 2021Article
- Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
A variety of joint action studies show that people tend to fall into synchronous behavior with others participating in the same task, and that such synchronization is beneficial, leading to greater rapport, satisfaction, and performance. It has been noted that many of these task environments require simple interactions that involve little planning of action coordination toward a shared goal. The present study utilized a complex joint construction task in which dyads were instructed to build model cars while their hand movements and heart rates were measured. Participants built these models under varying conditions, delimiting how freely they could divide labor during a build session. While hand movement synchrony was sensitive to the different tasks and outcomes, the heart rate measure did not show any effects of interpersonal synchrony. Results for hand movements show that the more participants were constrained by a particular building strategy, the greater their behavioral synchrony. Within the different conditions, the degree of synchrony was predictive of subjective satisfaction and objective product outcomes. However, in contrast to many previous findings, synchrony was negatively associated with superior products, and, depending on the constraints on the interaction, positively or negatively correlated with higher subjective satisfaction. These results show that the task context critically shapes the role of synchronization during joint action, and that in more complex tasks, not synchronization of behavior, but rather complementary types of behavior may be associated with superior task outcomes.
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