How does it work and what is it for? Two explanations have been offered. Yarrow et al. hypothesized that it serves to create perceptual continuity across saccadic eye movements during which visual sensitivity is largely reduced, mainly due to saccadic suppression. Rose’s and Summers’ demonstration of chronostasis without eye movements, however, raises a question about this. The time perception ...

During social interaction, both participants are continuously active, each modifying their own actions in response to the continuously changing actions of the partner. This continuous mutual adaptation results in interactional synchrony to which both members contribute. Freely exchanging the role of imitator and model is a well-framed example of interactional synchrony resulting from a mutual b...

OBJECTIVES Several European studies showed that low organizational justice (i.e., procedural justice and interactional justice) was associated with major depressive disorders. In these studies, however, the diagnosis of major depressive disorders may be underestimated because they identified only individuals who visited a doctor and received a diagnosis. Moreover, these studies did not consider...

Research on distributive, procedural, and interactional justice has shown that individuals have strong preferences for specific fairness-related decision criteria (e.g., equity, etc.) but that the relative importance of these criteria varies as a function of social context. Students offered importance ratings of 21 justice criteria three times over a semester. Multilevel growth curve modeling s...

There is a need for a holistic perspective when considering aspects of natural interactions with robotic socially believable behaving systems, that must account of the cultural, social, physical, and individual (the context) features that shape interactional exchanges. Context (the physical, social and organizational context) rules individual’s social conducts and provide means to render the wo...

Music is sometimes compared to language as a system of communication, however this comparison is usually at a generic formal, cultural or social level. This paper explores this analogy at the detailed level of interaction: to what extent can musical contributions act as conversational turns? We explore this question through an ethnographic study of music lessons. We describe a new transcription...