From distal to proximal to interactive: behavioral and brain synchrony during attraction, courtship, and sexual interaction—implications for clinical assessments of …

JG Pfaus, A Safron, E Zakreski - Sexual Medicine Reviews, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Synchronous behaviors between individuals are nonverbal signs of closeness
and common purpose. In the flow from initial attraction to intimate sexual interaction …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring Empathic Stress–a Systematic Review of Methodology and Practical Considerations for Future Research

R Marheinecke, J Blasberg, K Heilmann, H Imrie… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

A systematic review of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in romantic relationships

SC Han, B Baucom, AC Timmons, G Margolin - Family process, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of the parasympathetic nervous system, has
recently gained attention as a physiological component of regulatory processes, social …

Relationship satisfaction, feelings of closeness and annoyance, and linkage in electrodermal activity.

AC Timmons, SC Han, T Chaspari, Y Kim… - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Physiological linkage refers to moment-to-moment, time-linked coordination in physiological
responses among people in close relationships. Although people in romantic relationships …

Empathic stress in the mother–child dyad: Multimodal evidence for empathic stress in children observing their mothers during direct stress exposure.

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Empathic stress in the family: Does diurnal cortisol covariation between adolescents and their parents influence adolescent empathic stress in the laboratory?

JU Blasberg, P Kanske, V Engert - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2025 - Elsevier
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 …

Costs of caring: Synchrony in salivary alpha amylase, heart rate, and negative affect in adolescents' close friendships

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 …

Embodying intimacy in everyday interaction: A biolinguistic study of long‐term partners in the Southeastern United States

SE Pritzker, JA DeCaro, B Gall, LT Monocello… - Ethos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this
paper advances a “biolinguistic” approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending …

[HTML][HTML] Empathic stress is decreased by prior stressor experience and increased in a position of power

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 …

From distal to proximal to interactive: Behavioral and brain synchrony during attraction, courtship, and sexual interaction

JG Pfaus, E Zakreski, A Safron - 2022 - osf.io
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; …