ArticleScientific reports2021
Social context facilitates visuomotor synchrony and bonding in children and adults.
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- Interpersonal motor synchrony in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Psychosocial outcomes of folk dance interventions compared with other dance forms: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Motor synchrony, social learning and closeness in group play settings.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Social and nonsocial synchrony are interrelated and romantically attractive.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Social-Motor Coordination Between Peers: Joint Action Developmental Trajectories in ASD and TD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Mimicry and social affiliation with virtual partner are decreased in autism.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2023Article
- Pathways to peer interaction in ASD and TD through individual and dyadic joint-action motor abilities.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Components of Interpersonal Synchrony in the Typical Population and in Autism: A Conceptual Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Exploring the role of rhythmic music and embodied interaction in interpersonal synchrony and prosocial behaviors in children: The Moving Mandala mixed reality experience.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Interpersonal synchrony is a fundamental part of human social interaction, with known effects on facilitating social bonding. Moving in time with another person facilitates prosocial behaviour, however, it is unknown if the degree of synchronisation predicts the degree of social bonding. Similarly, while people readily fall in synchrony even without being instructed to do so, we do not know whether such spontaneous synchronisation elicits similar prosocial effects as instructed synchronisation. Across two studies, we investigated how context (social vs non-social stimulus) and instruction (instructed vs uninstructed) influenced synchronisation accuracy and bonding with the interaction partner in adults and children. The results revealed improved visuomotor synchrony within a social, compared to non-social, context in adults and children. Children, but not adults, synchronised more accurately when instructed to synchronise than when uninstructed. For both children and adults, synchronisation in a social context elicited stronger social bonding towards an interaction partner as compared to synchronisation in a non-social context. Finally, children's, but not adults', degree of synchrony with the partner was significantly associated with their feelings of social closeness. These findings illuminate the interaction of sensorimotor coupling and joint action in social contexts and how these mechanisms facilitate synchronisation ability and social bonding.
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