Strangers, friends, and lovers show different physiological synchrony in different emotional states

• Main Authors: Bizzego, Andrea, Azhari, Atiqah, Campostrini, Nicola, Truzzi, Anna, Ng, Li Ying, Gabrieli, Giulio, Bornstein, Marc H., Setoh, Peipei, Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Heart Rate Variability; Physiological Synchrony
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143240; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/O9ADTR
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The mere copresence of another person synchronizes physiological signals, but no study has systematically investigated the effects of the type of emotional state and the type of relationship in eliciting dyadic physiological synchrony. In this study, we investigated the synchrony of pairs of strange...