Aside from stressors that each of us experience directly, we also share the stress of the people around us. Such empathic stress exists on the psychological and physiological …
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of the parasympathetic nervous system, has recently gained attention as a physiological component of regulatory processes, social …
Physiological linkage refers to moment-to-moment, time-linked coordination in physiological responses among people in close relationships. Although people in romantic relationships …
JU Blasberg, J Jost, P Kanske… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Relationship closeness determines the propensity to spontaneously reproduce another's emotional and physiological stress response. We investigated whether psychosocial stress …
Empathic stress is the reproduction of psychological and physiological stress activation in an observer of a directly stressed target individual. It likely allows us to allocate the energy …
EC Cook, LR Stroud - Biological Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Friends influence one another in a multitude of areas, yet we know very little about friends influencing one another's handling of emotional responses to stressful events utilizing a …
Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this paper advances a “biolinguistic” approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending …
K Heilmann, TH Müller, M Walter, V Engert - Hormones and Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
The observation of a stressed individual can trigger a stress response in a passive observer. Little is known about the mechanisms of this so-termed empathic stress, including the …
In this chapter we review some of the multifarious roles of synchrony in mating psychology. We describe how synchronous dynamics contribute to the coherence of nervous systems; …