Social priming enhances interpersonal synchronization and feeling of connectedness towards schizophrenia patients.

ABSTRACT: What leads healthy individuals to abnormal feelings of contact with schizophrenia patients remains obscure. Despite recent findings that human bonding is an interactive process influenced by coordination dynamics, the spatiotemporal organization of the bodily movements of schizophrenia patients when interacting with other people is poorly understood. Interpersonal motor coordination between dyads of patients (n = 45) or healthy controls (n = 45), and synchronization partners (n = 90), was assessed with a hand-held pendulum task following implicit exposure to pro-social, non-social, or anti-social primes. We evaluated the socio-motor competence and the feeling of connectedness between participants and their synchronization partners with a measure of motor coordination stability. Immediately

SUBMITTER: Raffard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4313116 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature