Exploring the role of emotions and conversation content in interpersonal synchrony: A case study of a couple therapy session

Figures & data

Figure 1. An illustration of the setting including camera angles.

Table I. Targets of the conversation per TE.

TE	Mary	Tom	Relationship	Family	Other
2	1	10	0	2	0
3	7	3	6	1	0
4	1	10	8	1	4
5	2	9	1	0	4
6	0	3	8	0	1
7	0	7	0	0	1
8	9	3	8	1	1
9	7	0	0	2	0
10	3	6	4	1	0
11	12	3	3	0	0
12	5	10	18	3	0
13	4	3	8	1	0
14	3	3	10	1	1
15	10	12	1	0	1
16	12	12	19	3	0
17	16	2	1	1	3
18	0	6	0	1	1
19	2	3	1	1	2
Sum	94	105	96	19	19

Table II. Mean dyadic synchrony (ESnoabs) in each TE for both movement and EDA.

	Movement	Movement	Movement	Movement	EDA	EDA	EDA	EDA
Dyad type	all	C–C	C–T	T–T	all	C–C	C–T	T–T
n	108	18	72	18	108	18	72	18
all TEs	1.63***	1.24	2.07***	0.24	3.84**	6.30	1.80	9.54*
n	6				6
TE 2	−0.52				−2.82
TE 3	2.26				2.34
TE 4	2.89				3.09
TE 5	3.38				1.41
TE 6	0.94				−1.50
TE 7	0.37				−8.57*
TE 8	2.90				0.97
TE 9	1.21				4.51
TE 10	3.57				2.65
TE 11	2.75				2.44
TE 12	1.85				12.89*
TE 13	−0.01				8.04
TE 14	5.40**				13.07*
TE 15	2.10				12.36
TE 16	0.94				14.94
TE 17	−2.31				3.97
TE 18	−0.13				−0.63
TE 19	1.81				−0.04

Note. p values for one-sample t-tests, two-sided: * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. ESnoabs: synchrony effect sizes for 20s segments, lags up to +/- 3s

Table III. Mean dyadic synchrony ESnoabs across TEs for different valences.

Valence category	EDA				Movement
	Positive valence	Negative valence	Mixed valence	Neutral valence	Positive valence	Negative valence	Mixed valence	Neutral valence
n	6	30	30	42	6	18	30	42
all TEs	13.07*	5.10*	5.74	0.26	5.40**	2.27*	0.40	1.51*

Note. p values for one-sample t-tests, two-sided: * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01.

Table IV. Correlation between movement (here Mov) and EDA synchrony in each dyad type.

Variable	With variable	Correlation	n	lower 95% CI	upper 95% CI	p
Mov-C-C	EDA-C-C	−0.0673	18	−0.5179	0.4126	0.7909
Mov-C-T	EDA-C-T	0.3902	18	−0.0938	0.7250	0.1094
Mov-T-T	EDA-T-T	−0.4049	18	−0.7332	0.0764	0.0956

Figure 2. A summary of the findings from the regression analyses.