This review focuses on patient factors (across the overarching classes of demographics,
mental health, beliefs and preferences, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and contributions to the …

Nonverbal behavior is a central factor influencing the therapeutic relationship. Despite broad
agreement on its importance, empirical studies assessing nonverbal behavior in counseling …

A study of 132 audience members of three classical public concerts (all three staged the
same chamber music pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, and Johannes Brahms) …

Background The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of interpersonal
coordination (ie, covariation over time) in different modalities (eg, physiology, language) …

Objective: This paper highlights the facilitation of dyadic synchrony as a core
psychotherapist skill that occurs at the non-verbal level and underlies many other …

Objectives: A methodological obstacle for the assessment of psychotherapy process
concerns the compatibility between nomothetic versus idiographic approaches. Using …

Background: Studies with heterogeneous samples in naturalistic treatment settings suggest
that movement synchrony (MS) between therapists and patients correlates with therapeutic …

Abstract Introduction. Motion Energy Analysis (MEA) is a procedure that allows to
automatically assess the amount of persons' movement from video recordings. Recent …

Human beings organise socially. Theories have posited that interpersonal neural
synchronisation might underlie the creation of affiliative bonds. Previous studies tested this …

The pilot study investigated with a matched-subjects design whether nonverbal synchrony is
a diagnostic feature for depression and whether it mediates between depression and …