ArticlePsychophysiology2026
A Dynamic State-Based Framework for Quantifying Triadic Autonomic Synchrony During Group Decision-Making.
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In triadic social interaction, autonomic coordination is dynamic and may be poorly captured by session-level synchrony estimates. We propose a state-based framework to quantify time-varying interpersonal synchrony during a laboratory group decision-making task (Desert Survival Task) using concurrently recorded electrodermal activity (EDA) and ECG-derived heart rate variability (HRV). Twelve triads (36 participants) with complete physiological recordings were analyzed. Signals were segmented into overlapping 60 s windows (1 s step). For each participant, window-level features were extracted (EDA: 4 features; HRV: 74 features), standardized within individuals, and converted to dyadic divergence vectors (absolute differences) for the three dyads in each triad. Divergence vectors (combined EDA plus HRV) were reduced with PCA (95% variance retained) and clustered using a single global k-means model trained on pooled windows to yield five discrete synchrony states shared across triads. States were ordered along the first principal component (PC1) of the divergence space, with its orientation chosen so that State 0 corresponded to the highest-synchrony state (HSS). Triad-level state metrics quantified both prevalence and temporal stability: fractional occupancy rate (FOR), mean dwell time (MDT), and conditional long-run fraction (CLRF; ≥ 10 s runs). Empirical triads showed a graded continuum of synchrony across states and a strong bias toward the HSS. Surrogate validation using a leave-one-fixed Iterative Amplitude Adjusted Fourier Transform (IAAFT) null applied at the signal level demonstrated that HSS occupancy and stability exceeded chance alignment (FOR; p < 0.001; MDT and CLRF; p < 0.001). Convergent validity of the proposed state representation was further supported by continuous signal-based benchmarks: compared with State 4, State 0 showed lower dynamic time warping distances and higher lag-optimized physiological linkage (max R
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