Studying Nonverbal Synchrony in Couple Therapy—Observing Implicit Posture and Movement Synchrony

Nonverbal Synchrony in Psychotherapy

Nonverbal synchrony and affect in dyadic interactions

In an experiment on dyadic social interaction, we invited participants to verbal interactions in cooperative, competitive, and 'fun task' conditions. We focused on the link between interactants' affectivity and their nonverbal synchrony, and explored which further variables contributed to affectivity: interactants' personality traits, sex, and the prescribed interaction tasks. Nonverbal synchro...

Nonverbal synchrony of head- and body-movement in psychotherapy: different signals have different associations with outcome

OBJECTIVE The coordination of patient's and therapist's bodily movement - nonverbal synchrony - has been empirically shown to be associated with psychotherapy outcome. This finding was based on dynamic movement patterns of the whole body. The present paper is a new analysis of an existing dataset (Ramseyer and Tschacher, 2011), which extends previous findings by differentiating movements pertai...

Phase Synchrony for Human Implicit Intent Differentiation

This paper focuses on discriminating user’s intent to real images based on phase synchrony in EEG. The goal is to differentiate user's navigational intention and informational intention with real world scenario’s. In this paper, we first calculate Phase locking Value (PLV) between all electrode pairs in EEG collection montage. We identified several most significant pairs (MSP) to construct brai...

Nonverbal Synchrony or Random Coincidence? How to Tell the Difference

Nonverbal synchrony in face-to-face interaction has been studied in numerous empirical investigations focusing on various communication channels. Furthermore, the pervasiveness of synchrony in physics, chemistry and biology adds to its face-validity. This paper is focused on establishing criteria for a statistical evaluation of synchrony in human interaction. When assessing synchrony in any com...