phys.org/news/2026-10-synchronized-bodily-responses-cooperation.html Synchronized bodily responses do not always reflect cooperation, study finds
When strangers' skin conductance moved in step during a face-to-face trust game, it did not reliably predict that they would repay each other's trust. The Dutch study of 122 participants found that matching bodily responses are not always linked to greater reciprocity and cooperation, a challenge to earlier work tying synchrony to trust.
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