Natural and affective handshakes of two participants define the course of dyadic interaction. Affective states of the participants are expected to be correlated with the nature or type of the dyadic interaction. In this study, we investigate relationship between affective attributes and nature of dyadic interaction. In this investigation we use the JESTKOD database, which consists of speech and...

The study of dyadic interaction plays a major role in infancy research. To advance conceptually-informed measurement of dyadic interaction and integration across studies, we examined factor structure of individual parents' and infants' measures and dyadic measures from face-to-face interactions in two samples of 6-mo-old infants and their parents: mothers from a demographically heterogeneous sa...

We formulate a typed formalism for concurrency where types denote freely composable structure of dyadic interaction in the symmetric scheme. The resulting calculus is a typed reconstruction of name passing process calculi. Systems with both the explicit and implicit typing disciplines, where types form a simple hierarchy of types, are presented, which are proved to be in accordance with each ot...

Conversation is a complex coordination of human behaviours (Riley, Richardson, Shockley, & Ramenzoni, 2011). Recent theoretical discussion of dyadic coordination has focused on issues of synchronization, entrainment, alignment, and convergence. All of these terms refer to a local matching of specific behavioural and linguistic events, such that members of a dyad coordinate by “doing the same th...

Currently, a controversy is dividing physicists: Do the basic laws of nature operate only at the level of elementary particles (the reductionist position) or also (and differently) at higher levels of matter? If proponents of the former position are correct, then a complete explanation of physics can be achieved by studying the most basic particles in isolation. A similar controversy has long d...

We discuss the logic of research designs for dyadic interaction and present statistical models with parameters that are tied to psychologically relevant constructs. Building on Karl Pearson's classic nineteenth-century statistical analysis of within-organism similarity, we describe several approaches to indexing dyadic interdependence and provide graphical methods for visualizing dyadic data. W...