Trujillo James P, Dyer Rebecca M K, Holler Judith
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Discourse Process. 2025 Feb 26;62(3):195-213. doi: 10.1080/0163853X.2025.2467605. eCollection 2025.
During conversation, speakers coordinate and synergize their behaviors at multiple levels, and in different ways. The extent to which individuals converge or diverge in their behaviors during interaction may relate to interpersonal differences relevant to social interaction, such as empathy as measured by the empathy quotient (EQ). An association between interpersonal difference in empathy and interpersonal entrainment could help to throw light on how interlocutor characteristics influence interpersonal entrainment. We investigated this possibility in a corpus of unconstrained conversation between dyads. We used dynamic time warping to quantify entrainment between interlocutors of head motion, hand motion, and maximum speech during question-response sequences. We additionally calculated interlocutor differences in EQ scores. We found that, for both head and hand motion, greater difference in EQ was associated with higher entrainment. Thus, we consider that people who are dissimilar in EQ may need to "ground" their interaction with low-level movement entrainment. There was no significant relationship between entrainment and EQ score differences.
在对话过程中，说话者会在多个层面以不同方式协调并协同他们的行为。个体在互动过程中行为趋同或趋异的程度可能与社会互动相关的人际差异有关，比如用共情商数（EQ）衡量的共情能力。共情方面的人际差异与人际同步之间的关联有助于阐明对话者特征如何影响人际同步。我们在一组二人无约束对话语料库中研究了这种可能性。我们使用动态时间规整来量化问答序列中对话者头部运动、手部运动和最大语速之间的同步程度。我们还计算了对话者在EQ分数上的差异。我们发现，对于头部和手部运动而言，EQ差异越大，同步程度越高。因此，我们认为EQ不同的人可能需要通过低层次的动作同步来“奠定”他们的互动基础。同步程度与EQ分数差异之间没有显著关系。
