When we clap our hands in synchrony, feel the sadness of a friend, or match our attitudes to
peer norms, we align our behavior with others. We propose here a model that views …

The capacity to establish interpersonal synchrony is fundamental to human beings because
it constitutes the basis for social connection and understanding. Interpersonal synchrony …

Many everyday conversations, whether between close partners or strangers interacting for
the first time, are about the world external to their relationship, such as music, food, or …

Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other nonspecific
somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close …

Opportunities to persuade and be persuaded are ubiquitous. What determines whether
influence spreads and takes hold? This review provides an overview of evidence for the …

When two people look at the same object in the environment and are aware of each other's
attentional state, they find themselves in a shared-attention episode. This can occur through …

Humans' interactions with each other or with socially competent machines exhibit lawful
coordination patterns at multiple levels of description. According to Coordination Dynamics …

Interpersonal synchrony, the time-matching behaviors, is pervasive in human interactions.
This resonation of movements or other forms was generally considered as one of critical …

This study investigated the effect of unilateral interpersonal synchrony on empathy in two
simple leader–follower finger tapping communication tasks in individuals with and without …

Synchronized behavior has significant social influence both in terms of everyday activities
(eg, walking and talking) as well as via more historical contexts (eg, cultural rituals) …