Front. Psychol.
 2016
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01744
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Influences on and Measures of Unintentional Group Synchrony

Melissa Ellamil
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Josh Berson
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Daniel S. Margulies
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Abstract: Many instances of large-scale coordination occur in real-life social situations without the explicit awareness of the individuals involved. While the majority of research to date has examined dyadic interactions – those between two individuals – during intentional or deliberate coordination, the present review surveys the handful of recent studies investigating behavioral and physiological synchrony across groups of more than two people when coordination was not an explicit goal. Both minimal (e.g., visual inf… Show more

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“…In addition, our findings revealed that interactions at the content space of collaboration could produce PS, even in the absence of the emotional or motivational regulation that takes place at the relational space. It should be noted that investigation of PS in team collaboration is still in its infancy and standard measures of PS are no yet developed (Ellamil et al, 2016). Thus, the current study is not conclusive and could be regarded as a preliminary attempt to unearth SSRL processes with PS.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…Physiological synchrony (PS) refers to the relation between physiological responses of interacting individuals as they perform a collaborative task (Henning, Armstead, & Ferris, 2009). PS develops spontaneously and unintentionally, and thus, can be indexed by measuring responses of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) (Ellamil, Berson, & Margulies, 2016;Palumbo, Marraccini, Weyandt, Wilder-Smith, McGee, Liu, & Goodwin, 2016;Strang, Funke, Russell, Dukes, & Middendorf, 2014). Electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) activity are considered popular measures derived from the ANS.…”
Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning
confidence: 99%
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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…In addition, our findings revealed that interactions at the content space of collaboration could produce PS, even in the absence of the emotional or motivational regulation that takes place at the relational space. It should be noted that investigation of PS in team collaboration is still in its infancy and standard measures of PS are no yet developed (Ellamil et al, 2016). Thus, the current study is not conclusive and could be regarded as a preliminary attempt to unearth SSRL processes with PS.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…Physiological synchrony (PS) refers to the relation between physiological responses of interacting individuals as they perform a collaborative task (Henning, Armstead, & Ferris, 2009). PS develops spontaneously and unintentionally, and thus, can be indexed by measuring responses of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) (Ellamil, Berson, & Margulies, 2016;Palumbo, Marraccini, Weyandt, Wilder-Smith, McGee, Liu, & Goodwin, 2016;Strang, Funke, Russell, Dukes, & Middendorf, 2014). Electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) activity are considered popular measures derived from the ANS.…”
Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…Physiological synchrony (PS) is defined as the temporal alignment or correspondence in physiological activity between two or more interacting individuals (Ellamil et al, 2016;Helm et al, 2018;Palumbo et al, 2017). PS can happen unintentionally and automatically (Ellamil et al, 2016), and has been found in different species (Ham et al, 2023) as well as between species (Keeling et al, 2009). In humans, PS is linked to important components of social inter-actions, such as mimicry of gestures and facial expression, emotional contagion (i.e.…”
Section: Physiological Synchronymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The paired or grouped structure of the data and the nature of time series data often violate assumptions of traditional statistical approaches (Palumbo et al, 2017). Although various methods to analyze PS have been suggested (for reviews, see Ellamil et al (2016); Kazi et al (2019); Palumbo et al (2017)), making an informed decision about which method to use for the investigation of certain subtypes of PS often proves challenging for researchers.…”
Section: Types Of Ans Synchronymentioning
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…The co-occurrence and interdependence of changes in physiological reaction across interaction partners is called physiological synchronization [Ellamil et al (2016); Palumbo et al (2017), PS;], also referred to as empathic resonance or linkage. This cross-reactivity among group members or dyads has emerged as an important phenomenon to consider when investigating social processes.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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