Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little
consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have …

Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) is the coordination of rhythmic movement with an
external rhythm, ranging from finger tap** in time with a metronome to musical ensemble …

Adults who move together to a shared musical beat synchronously as opposed to
asynchronously are subsequently more likely to display prosocial behaviors toward each …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

Behavioral mimicry—the automatic imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other
motor movements—is pervasive in human interactions. The current review focuses on two …

Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach
pioneered by JJ Gibson and EJ Gibson. This theory aims to offer a third way beyond …

Individual players act as a coherent unit during team sports performance, forming a team
synergy. A synergy is a collective property of a task-specific organization of individuals, such …

This paper briefly introduces radical embodied cognitive science (RECS) and places it in
historical perspective. Radical embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach …

Synchrony refers to individuals' temporal coordination during social interactions. The
analysis of this phenomenon is complex, requiring the perception and integration of …

As yet, there is no enactive account of social cognition. This paper extends the enactive
concept of sense-making into the social domain. It takes as its departure point the process of …