TY - GEN
T1 - Interpersonal Coordination of Perception and Memory in Real-Time Online Social Experiments
AU - Paxton, Alexandra
AU - Morgan, Thomas J.H.
AU - Suchow, Jordan W.
AU - Griffiths, Thomas L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - human communication
KW - interpersonal coordination
KW - online experiments
KW - social interaction
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077508298
T3 - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
SP - 852
EP - 857
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018
Y2 - 25 July 2018 through 28 July 2018
ER -