Moving attractive virtual agent improves interpersonal coordination stability |
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| Institution: | 1. Movement to Health Laboratory, Euromov, University of Montpellier, France;2. Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA;3. Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France;1. Département de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et l’Adolescent, APHP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France;2. Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique, ISIR, CNRS UMR 7222, Paris, France;3. Pôle de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent, centre hospitalier Montperrin, 109, avenue du PetitBarthélémy, 13617 Aix-en-Provence, France;4. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA;5. CRPMS, EA 3522, Université Paris Diderot, et Equipe Berthoz, Collège de France, Paris, France;6. Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut de Psychologie, Boulogne-Billancourt, France;1. EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, Univ Montpellier, IMT Mines Ales, Montpellier 34090, France;2. ETIS UMR8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS, Pontoise 95300, France;3. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610, USA;4. GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38185, France;1. Department of Family Medicine, Amoud University, Borama, Somaliland, Somalia;2. Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia;3. Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia;1. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, China;2. Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;3. Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Interpersonal motor coordination is influenced not only by biomechanical factors such as coordination pattern, oscillating frequency, and individual differences, but also by psychosocial factor such as likability and social competences. Based on the social stereotype of “what is beautiful is good”, the present study aimed at investigating whether people coordinate differently with physically attractive people compared to less attractive people. 34 participants were engaged in an interpersonal coordination task with different looking (virtual) agents while performing at the same time a reaction time task. Results showed that participants had more stable motor coordination with the moving attractive than with the less attractive agent, and that the difference in motor coordination could not be interpreted by a specific attention allocation strategy. Our findings provide the evidence that physical attractiveness genuinely affects how people interact with another person, and that the temporal-spatial coordinated movement varies with the partner’s psychosocial characteristics. The study broadens the perspective of exploring the effect of additional psychosocial factors on social motor coordination. |
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| Keywords: | Social motor coordination Physical attractiveness Affiliation Likability Group and interpersonal processes |
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