Interactional Synchrony
Carrying out the same action simultaneously
Research Evidence
Feldman
- Temporal co-ordination of micro-level social behaviour
Mezzloff & Moore
- Observed the start of IS. with babies from the age of 2 weeks and found they mirrored adult’s expressions more times than just being down to chance
Isabella et al.
- Found that high synchronity was associated with better quality attachments as 30 mother and infants were observed