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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 399-402Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.07.015
Keywords
Synchrony; Self-disclosure; Rapport; Embodiment; Relationship formation
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH059615-08, R01 MH059615, R01 MH059615-09] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH059615] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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This paper examines the emergence of behavioral synchrony among strangers in the context of self-disclosure, and their path in predicting interaction quality. Specifically, we hypothesize that behavioral synchrony mediates the direct effect of self-disclosure on the development of embodied rapport. Same-sex stranger pairs (n = 94) were randomly assigned to a video recorded self-disclosure or control condition, and afterward each member rated their social interaction. Following the procedure used by Bernieri. Reznick, and Rosenthal (1988), two trained judges independently watched each video record and rated each pair interaction on behavioral synchrony. Bootstrapping analyses provide support for the hypothesized mediating effect of behavioral synchrony, which emerged as independent of the effects of self-other overlap and positive affect. The authors discuss implications of behavioral synchrony for relationship formation processes and the inevitable entwinement of behavior and judgments in light of embodied cognition. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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