School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Br J Psychol. 2020 Nov;111(4):782-804. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12426. Epub 2019 Sep 25.
Viewed under the broad theoretical umbrella of an embodied-embedded approach to psychological activity, body movements can be seen to play an essential role in shaping social interaction. Of note, research concerning the embodiment of social cognition has documented key differences in non-verbal behaviour during social interaction for individuals diagnosed with a range of disorders, including social anxiety disorder and autism spectrum disorder. The present work sets out to extend these findings by better understanding the interplay between subclinical variation in psychopathology and social-motor coordination, a key component of effective interaction. We asked participants, in pairs, to swing hand-held pendula that varied in their intrinsic movement characteristics. Extending previous clinically oriented work (Varlet et al., 2014, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 29), our results indicated that subclinical variation in mental health status was predictive of disruption to the patterns of coordination dynamics that characterize effective social exchange. This work provides further evidence for the utility of theorizing social interaction as a self-organizing dynamical system and strengthens support for the claim that disruption to interpersonal coordination may act as an embodied-embedded marker of variation in mental health.
从体现论和嵌入论的心理学活动广义理论视角来看，身体运动在塑造社会互动方面发挥着重要作用。值得注意的是，有关社会认知体现的研究记录了患有一系列障碍（包括社交焦虑障碍和自闭症谱系障碍）的个体在社会互动中非言语行为的关键差异。本研究旨在通过更好地理解精神病理学的亚临床变化与社交运动协调之间的相互作用来扩展这些发现，社交运动协调是有效互动的关键组成部分。我们要求参与者成对地摆动手持摆锤，这些摆锤在内在运动特征上有所不同。扩展先前以临床为导向的工作（Varlet 等人，2014 年，《行为神经科学前沿》，8，29），我们的结果表明，心理健康状况的亚临床变化可预测破坏有效社会交流的协调动力学模式。这项工作为将社会互动理论化为自组织动力系统的实用性提供了进一步的证据，并为以下观点提供了更强有力的支持，即人际协调的中断可能是心理健康变化的体现-嵌入标记。
