Interpersonal Coordination of Perception and Memory in Real-Time Online Social Experiments

Alexandra Paxton, Thomas J.H. Morgan, Jordan W. Suchow, Thomas L. Griffiths

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Abstract

The quiet hum of interpersonal coordination that runs throughout social communication and interaction shows how individuals can subtly influence one another's behaviors, thoughts, and emotions over time. While the majority of research on coordination studies face-to-face interaction, recent advances in crowdsourcing afford the opportunity to conduct large-scale, real-time social interaction experiments. We take advantage of these tools to explore interpersonal coordination in a “minimally interactive context,” distilling the richness of natural communication into a tightly controlled setting to explore how people become coupled in their perceptual and memory systems while performing a task together. Consistent with previous work on postural sway and gaze, we found that individuals become coupled to one another's cognitive processes without needing to be co-located or fully interactive with their partner; interestingly, although participants had no information about their partner and no means of direct communication, we also found hints that social forces can shape minimally interactive contexts, similar to effects observed in face-to-face interaction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
PublisherThe Cognitive Science Society
Pages852-857
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780991196784
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018 - Madison, United States
Duration: Jul 25 2018Jul 28 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018

Conference

Conference40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMadison
Period7/25/187/28/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Keywords

  • human communication
  • interpersonal coordination
  • online experiments
  • social interaction

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