Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.

S Keisari, Y Palgi, D Yaniv… - … of Aesthetics, Creativity …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Playback theater is a form of improvisational theater that combines artistic expression with
an exploration of life stories in a group creative process. The goal of the current study was to …

Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

S Keisari, A Gesser-Edelsburg, D Yaniv, Y Palgi - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The literature indicates that theatre and drama-based interventions have the potential to
improve older adults' well-being and health. The goal of the current study was to …

New horizon in improving ageing with improvisational theatre

S Keisari, KR Krueger, BM Ben-David… - Age and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cognitive decline, mental health and mindset factors can all affect the autonomy and well-
being of older adults. As the number of older adults across the globe increases …

Inhibiting responses under the watch of a recently synchronized peer increases self-monitoring: evidence from functional near-infrared spectroscopy

R Moffat, N Caruana, ES Cross - Open Biology, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Develo** motor synchrony with a peer (through interventions such as the mirror game)
can yield collaborative, cognitive and social benefits. However, it is also well established …

[HTML][HTML] Intergenerational Synchrony and Its Effect on Bonding and Group Closeness among Young and Older Adults

A Suberry, E Bodner - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
To examine the effect of synchronous dance movements on social bonding and perceived
closeness between generations, 168 young (20–45 years) and older (65–90 years) …

Dyadic body competence predicts movement synchrony during the mirror game

R Moffat, L Roos, C Casale, ES Cross - Frontiers in Human …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The process of synchronizing our body movements with others is known to enhance rapport,
affect, and prosociality. Furthermore, emerging evidence suggests that synchronizing …

Processing emotional prosody in a foreign language: The case of German and Hebrew

V Shakuf, B Ben-David, TGG Wegner… - Journal of Cultural …, 2022 - Springer
This study investigated the universality of emotional prosody in perception of discrete
emotions when semantics is not available. In two experiments the perception of emotional …

More Than Just Movement: Exploring Embodied Group Synchrony During Seated Dance for Older Adults Living in Residential Aged Care Communities

B Toohey, M Hutchinson… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
One in six people in Australia are aged over 65, with many older adults currently living in
residential aged care communities (RACC). Fostering meaningful human connection …

Evaluations of dyadic synchrony: observers' traits influence estimation and enjoyment of synchrony in mirror-game movements

R Moffat, ES Cross - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
While evidence abounds that motor synchrony is a powerful form of 'social glue'for those
involved, we have yet to understand how observers perceive motor synchrony: can …

Classifying interpersonal synchronization states using a data-driven approach: implications for social interaction understanding

R Yozevitch, A Dahan, T Seada, D Appel, H Gvirts - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study presents a data-driven approach to identifying interpersonal motor synchrony
states by analyzing hand movements captured from a 3 D depth camera. Utilizing a single …