Strangers in sync: Achieving embodied rapport through shared movements

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 399-402

  Vacharkulksemsuk, Tanya ^a   Fredrickson, Barbara L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Rapport; Relationship formation; Self disclosure; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655181846     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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