Distinct roles of state-like and trait-like patient–therapist alliance in psychotherapy

S Zilcha-Mano, H Fisher - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Hundreds of studies suggest that the patient–therapist alliance is the most consistent
predictor of treatment outcome across patients, therapists, types of treatment and settings …

Disorganized communication and social dysfunction in schizophrenia: Emerging concepts and methods

E Olarewaju, G Dumas, L Palaniyappan - Current Psychiatry Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review In this review, we embrace the emerging field of second-person
neuroscience to address disorganization in schizophrenia. We argue that the focus of …

Neural cognitive signals during spontaneous movements in the macaque

S Tremblay, C Testard, RW DiTullio, J Inchauspé… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The single-neuron basis of cognitive processing in primates has mostly been studied in
laboratory settings where movements are severely restricted. It is unclear, therefore, how …

Exploring the evolution of nonverbal synchrony in psychotherapy: The idiographic perspective provides a different picture

FT Ramseyer - Psychotherapy Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: A methodological obstacle for the assessment of psychotherapy process
concerns the compatibility between nomothetic versus idiographic approaches. Using …

rMEA: An R package to assess nonverbal synchronization in motion energy analysis time-series

JR Kleinbub, FT Ramseyer - Psychotherapy research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Introduction. Motion Energy Analysis (MEA) is a procedure that allows to
automatically assess the amount of persons' movement from video recordings. Recent …

Nonverbal synchrony as a marker of alliance ruptures.

K Deres-Cohen, T Dolev-Amit, G Peysachov… - …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Findings from the past 5 decades of empirical research on the working alliance suggest its
importance in psychotherapy. Recent studies have sought to identify markers of the alliance …

The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization

NA Arellano‐Véliz, BF Jeronimus… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In social interactions, humans tend to naturally synchronize their body movements.
We investigated interpersonal synchronization in conversations and examined its …

Individual-specific animated profiles of mental health

S Zilcha-Mano - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
How important is the timing of the pretreatment evaluation? If we consider mental health to
be a relatively fixed condition, the specific timing (eg, day, hour) of the evaluation is …

Brief report: Specificity of interpersonal synchrony deficits to autism spectrum disorder and its potential for digitally assisted diagnostics

JC Koehler, AL Georgescu, J Weiske… - Journal of autism and …, 2022 - Springer
Reliably diagnosing autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in adulthood poses a challenge to
clinicians due to the absence of specific diagnostic markers. This study investigated the …

Synchrony facilitates altruistic decision making for non-human avatars

K Fujiwara, R Hoegen, J Gratch, NE Dunbar - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Synchrony is a natural part of human interaction and is often associated with a variety of
prosocial outcomes including affinity and rapport. The purpose of this research was to …