TY - JOUR
T1 - Walking and talking independently predict interpersonal impressions
AU - Kato, Masaharu
AU - Kitagawa, Norimichi
AU - Kimura, Toshitaka
AU - Takano, Yuji
AU - Takagi, Tsukasa
AU - Hirose, Haruto
AU - Kashino, Makio
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very thankful to the two anonymous reviewers who give us invaluable comments to improve our manuscript. We thank Junji Nakano for his accurate and concise advice on statistics. We thank Masatoshi Ukezono, Aya Shirama, and Hiroe Mayama for field assistance. This work was partially supported by MEXT KAKENHI “Constructive Developmental Science” ( 24119006 ), JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR14E4 , and MEXT Promotion of Distinctive Joint Research Center Program Grant Number JPMXP0619217850 , Japan. A part of this study was presented at Joint Action Meeting at Budapest, 2015.
Funding Information:
We are very thankful to the two anonymous reviewers who give us invaluable comments to improve our manuscript. We thank Junji Nakano for his accurate and concise advice on statistics. We thank Masatoshi Ukezono, Aya Shirama, and Hiroe Mayama for field assistance. This work was partially supported by MEXT KAKENHI ?Constructive Developmental Science? (24119006), JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR14E4, and MEXT Promotion of Distinctive Joint Research Center Program Grant Number JPMXP0619217850, Japan. A part of this study was presented at Joint Action Meeting at Budapest, 2015.
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PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - When walking alongside someone, you may feel that your legs move in synchrony with theirs. Recent studies have shown that walk-in-synch behaviour observed in natural settings occurs at a rate significantly greater than would be expected by chance, and that the amount of this synchrony is related to interpersonal impressions. However, in such natural settings, the existence of verbal conversations between paired walkers should affect the interpersonal impressions and the effect is not distinguished from the effect of walk-in-synch on the impressions so far. In the current study, we used the analysis of conversation and path analysis to discriminate these two effects (i.e., the effects of synchronization of walking and conversation on interpersonal impressions). Analysis of conversation during the walk revealed that the amount of utterance overlap and the number of turn-takings between two walkers as well as the synchronization of steps predicted their positive interpersonal impression, while synchronization of steps and these two conversational indices were not correlated with each other. We propose that interpersonal synchronization of body movements, such as synchronization of steps itself in paired walking, plays a role in fostering the development of interpersonal relationships.
AB - When walking alongside someone, you may feel that your legs move in synchrony with theirs. Recent studies have shown that walk-in-synch behaviour observed in natural settings occurs at a rate significantly greater than would be expected by chance, and that the amount of this synchrony is related to interpersonal impressions. However, in such natural settings, the existence of verbal conversations between paired walkers should affect the interpersonal impressions and the effect is not distinguished from the effect of walk-in-synch on the impressions so far. In the current study, we used the analysis of conversation and path analysis to discriminate these two effects (i.e., the effects of synchronization of walking and conversation on interpersonal impressions). Analysis of conversation during the walk revealed that the amount of utterance overlap and the number of turn-takings between two walkers as well as the synchronization of steps predicted their positive interpersonal impression, while synchronization of steps and these two conversational indices were not correlated with each other. We propose that interpersonal synchronization of body movements, such as synchronization of steps itself in paired walking, plays a role in fostering the development of interpersonal relationships.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103172
DO - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103172
M3 - Article
C2 - 32980633
AN - SCOPUS:85091386572
VL - 210
JO - Acta Psychologica
JF - Acta Psychologica
SN - 0001-6918
M1 - 103172
ER -