Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, 18200, Czech Republic.
Center for Sexual Health and Intervention, Czech National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, 25067, Czech Republic.
Sex Med Rev. 2023 Sep 27;11(4):312-322. doi: 10.1093/sxmrev/qead034.
Synchronous behaviors between individuals are nonverbal signs of closeness and common purpose. In the flow from initial attraction to intimate sexual interaction, attention and synchrony move from distal to proximal to interactive and are mediated by sensitized activation of neural systems for sexual motivation, arousal, and desire and those that recognize and mimic common facial and body movements between individuals. When reinforced by sexual pleasure and other relationship rewards, this results in the strengthening of attraction and bonding and the display of more common motor patterns. As relationships falter, nonverbal behaviors likely become asynchronous.
To define behavioral, romantic, and sexual synchrony during phases of attraction and how their disruption can be observed and utilized by clinicians to assess individual relationship styles and quality.
We review the literature on behavioral and attentional synchrony in humans and animals in an effort to understand experiential and innate mechanisms of synchrony and asynchrony and how they develop, as well as implications for attraction, relationship initiation, maintenance of romantic and sexual closeness, and relationship disintegration.
Evidence is presented that behavioral synchrony and the neural mechanisms that underlie it are vital to relationship formation and satisfaction.
Behavioral synchrony helps to create feelings of sexual and romantic synergy, cohesion, and arousal among individuals. Asynchrony is aversive and can spark feelings of discontent, aversion, and jealousy. Thus, observing patterns of nonverbal sexual and romantic synchrony between individuals offers insights into the potential quality of their relationships.
个体之间的同步行为是非言语的亲密和共同目的的迹象。在从最初的吸引到亲密的性互动的流动中，注意力和同步性从远距离转移到近距离，再到互动，并通过性动机、唤起和欲望的神经系统的敏化激活以及识别和模仿个体之间共同的面部和身体运动的神经系统来介导。当性愉悦和其他关系奖励加强时，这会导致吸引力和联系的增强，并表现出更多共同的运动模式。当关系出现问题时，非言语行为可能会变得不同步。
定义吸引阶段的行为、浪漫和性同步性，以及它们的中断如何被临床医生观察和利用，以评估个体的关系风格和质量。
我们回顾了人类和动物行为和注意力同步性的文献，以努力理解同步性和不同步性的体验和先天机制，以及它们的发展方式，以及它们对吸引力、关系启动、浪漫和性亲密关系的维持以及关系破裂的影响。
有证据表明，行为同步性和支持它的神经机制对关系的形成和满意度至关重要。
行为同步有助于在个体之间创造性和浪漫的协同、凝聚力和唤起感。不同步是令人不快的，会引发不满、厌恶和嫉妒的感觉。因此，观察个体之间非言语性的性和浪漫同步模式可以深入了解他们关系的潜在质量。
