ReviewConsciousness and cognition2017
Alignment in social interactions.
Review in Consciousness and cognition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.
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- Interpersonal coordination in communication: effects of alignment in multiple modalities on objective and subjective task outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Self-organization and circular causation as synergetic foundations of social interaction: a multilayer network perspective.Frontiers in network physiology · 2026Article
- A BIO-EEG Hyperscanning Study of Moral Dyadic Negotiation.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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- Interpersonal Physiological Synchrony During Dyadic Joint Action Is Increased by Task Novelty and Reduced by Social Anxiety.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Dance and the Embodied Social Cognition of Mating: Carlos Saura's Tango in the Perspective of the Tie-Up Theory.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2025Article
- Multi-Modal Social Robot Behavioural Alignment and Learning Outcomes in Mediated Child-Robot Interactions.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Simultaneous intracranial recordings of interacting brains reveal neurocognitive dynamics of human cooperation.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Minding the moving self: the centrality of body movement in the neurodynamics of the self and psychotherapeutic implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Working memory load impairs tacit coordination but not inter-brain EEG synchronization.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dynamic structures of parent-child number talk: An application of categorical cross-recurrence quantification analysis and companion to Duong et al. (under review).The quantitative methods for psychology · 2024Article
- Hyper-brain hyper-frequency network topology dynamics when playing guitar in quartet.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Meeting the multidimensional self: fostering selfhood at the interface of Creative Arts Therapies and neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Visual memory of a co-actor's target during joint search.Psychological research · 2023Article
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- On the social nature of abstraction: cognitive implications of interaction and diversity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The impact of loneliness and social adaptation on depressive symptoms: Behavioral and brain measures evidence from a brain health perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Therapeutic touch and therapeutic alliance in pediatric care and neonatology: An active inference framework.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
According to the prevailing paradigm in social-cognitive neuroscience, the mental states of individuals become shared when they adapt to each other in the pursuit of a shared goal. We challenge this view by proposing an alternative approach to the cognitive foundations of social interactions. The central claim of this paper is that social cognition concerns the graded and dynamic process of alignment of individual minds, even in the absence of a shared goal. When individuals reciprocally exchange information about each other's minds processes of alignment unfold over time and across space, creating a social interaction. Not all cases of joint action involve such reciprocal exchange of information. To understand the nature of social interactions, then, we propose that attention should be focused on the manner in which people align words and thoughts, bodily postures and movements, in order to take one another into account and to make full use of socially relevant information.
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