Projects

Current Projects

Synchrony & Emotional Sharing

The Rhythm of Relating: How Emotional Sharing Emerges From Interpersonal Synchrony in Movement, Physiological and Neural Activations.

Due to pandemic restrictions, the project, led by Prof. Dr. S.L. Koole at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, faced significant modifications from its original plan. Despite these challenges, the team, including Mr. C. Ryan, N.A. Janssens MSc, and S.C.F. Hendrikse MSc, successfully conducted one experiment on emotional sharing, analyzed several existing datasets, and performed computer simulations of interpersonal synchronization. The project also extended its impact through the organization of art/science installations and a summer school for university students. Over the course of the project, which runs from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2025 under the NWO Open Competition SSH research programme, the team published six papers and contributed to 8 conferences.

Scientific Articles

S Hendrikse, S Koole, T Wilderjans, M Oostrik, G Dumas, P Chen, K Sargant, D Medine, M Romani, S Dikker (2021): Hybrid Harmony A multi-Person neurofeedback application for interpersonal synchrony pp. 687108 - 687108
SL Koole, S Kelsen, S Dikker, A Czeszumski, S König, CP Lee, SHY Liang (2022): Cooperative behavior evokes inter-brain synchrony in the prefrontal cortex: Systematic review and meta-analysis of fNIRS hyperscanning studies pp. 1 - 9
S. L. Koole, J. Treur, S. C. F. Hendrikse (2023): Modeling emerging interpersonal synchrony and its related adaptive short-term affiliation and long-term bonding: A second-order multi-adaptive neural agent model pp. 2350038 - 2350038
S. C. F. Hendrikse (2024): Relationship-specific and relationship-independent behavioural adaptivity in affiliation and bonding: A multi-adaptive dynamical systems approach. pp. 101182 - 101182
S. Dikker, T. Wilderjans, S. C. F Hendrikse, J. Treur, S. L. Koole, S. Kluiver (2023): How virtual agents can learn to synchronize: An adaptive joint decision-making model of psychotherapy pp. 138 - 138-155
T. Wilderjans, S. L. Koole, S. C. F. Hendrikse, S. Dikker, J. Treur (2023): On becoming in sync with yourself and others: An adaptive agent model for how persons connect by detecting intrapersonal and interpersonal synchrony pp. 123 - 146

Conference Contributions

L Rass, J Treur, E Eler, F. C. De Jong, S. L. Koole, R.M. Treur (2022): From Mental Network Models to Virtualisation by Avatars: a First Software Implementation. pp. 1 - 2022
J Treur, TF Wilderjans, S Hendrikse, S Dikker, S. L. Koole (2021): On the same wavelengths: Emergence of multiple synchronies among multiple agents. pp. 1 - 20
W Tschacher, S Dikker, K Fiedler, E Butler, WD Crano, T Wilderjans, J Forgas, SL Koole, D Atzil-Slonim (2020): In sync with your shrink: Grounding psychotherapy in interpersonal synchrony. How Social Psychology Can Contribute to the Solution of Real-World Problems pp. 161 - 184
J. Treur, S. C. F. Hendrikse, T. Wilderjans, S. Dikker (2022): Becoming attuned to each other over time: a computational neural agent model for the role of time lags in subjective synchrony detection and related behavioral adaptivity. pp. 1 - 30 , Cham
S. Dikker, T. Wilderjans, S. L. Koole, J. Treur, S. C. F. Hendrikse (2022): On the interplay of interpersonal synchrony, short-term affiliation and long-term bonding: A second-order multi-adaptive neural agent model. pp. 4 - 4
S. C. F. Hendrikse, S.. L. Koole, S. Dikker, J. Treur, T. Wilderjans (2023): Switching in and out of sync: A controlled adaptive network model of transition dynamics in the effects of interpersonal synchrony on affiliation. pp. 7 - 7
R. M. Treur, M. Michałowska, J. Treur, S. L. Koole (2023): From natural humans to artificial humans and back again: An integrative neuroscience-AI perspective on confluence. pp. 4 - 10
S. L. Koole, E. Eler, M. Timmers, F. Dimoupoulos, J. Treur (2023): An agent-based network model for interpersonal emotion regulation in a human-bot interaction pp. 1 - 20

Other Publications

A. Kleiboer, X. Jia, S. L. Koole (2023): Sex differences in emotional sharing: The mediating role of gendered self-concept.