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The Mere Co-Presence: Synchronization of Autonomic Signals and Emotional Responses across Co-Present Individuals Not Engaged in Direct Interaction

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  • Yulia Golland
  • Yossi Arzouan
  • Nava Levit-Binnun

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Existing evidence suggests that in social contexts individuals become coupled in their emotions and behaviors. Furthermore, recent biological studies demonstrate that the physiological signals of interacting individuals become coupled as well, exhibiting temporally synchronized response patterns. However, it is yet unknown whether people can shape each other's responses without the direct, face-to-face interaction. Here we investigated whether the convergence of physiological and emotional states can occur among “merely co-present” individuals, without direct interactional exchanges. To this end, we measured continuous autonomic signals and collected emotional responses of participants who watched emotional movies together, seated side-by-side. We found that the autonomic signals of co-present participants were idiosyncratically synchronized and that the degree of this synchronization was correlated with the convergence of their emotional responses. These findings suggest that moment-to-moment emotional transmissions, resulting in shared emotional experiences, can occur in the absence of direct communication and are mediated by autonomic synchronization.

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  • Yulia Golland & Yossi Arzouan & Nava Levit-Binnun, 2015. "The Mere Co-Presence: Synchronization of Autonomic Signals and Emotional Responses across Co-Present Individuals Not Engaged in Direct Interaction," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(5), pages 1-13, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0125804
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125804
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    2. Monnier, Anne & Adel, Lena & Dumas, Guillaume, 2024. "Now is the Time: Generative Neurophenomenology Beyond Generative Passages and Generative Models," OSF Preprints 5wuyn, Center for Open Science.

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