Interpersonal physiological synchrony: a marker or mechanism of shared attention and shared emotion?

titleInterpersonal physiological synchrony: a marker or mechanism of shared attention and shared emotion?
start_date2024/10/11
schedule13h-14h
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location_infoamphithéâtre Jaurès
summaryInterpersonal physiological synchrony (IPS) has been proposed to be both a marker of joint attention, elicited by attention to common stimuli or exogenous sources, in the absence of social context; and a mechanism underlying shared emotion (or arousal), emerging from a reciprocal exchange of emotional signals between people (endogenous sources). In this talk, I will present four lab-based and real-world empirical studies investigating how IPS is modulated by joint vs. shared attention and shared emotion, and by the closeness of those we share experiences with. The results suggest that in low-arousal settings, shared attention amplifies neural processing of stimuli but not necessarily emotional experiences, and that it is marked by increased IPS, driven by both exogenous and endogenous sources; while in high-arousal settings, shared attention amplifies emotional experiences and IPS, which are both further enhanced by social closeness.
responsiblesPacherie, Grezes, Chung