Not complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory

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dc.contributor.authorVial, Ivan
dc.contributor.authorCornejo, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:01:47Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:01:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractInterpersonal coordination (IC) has become an area of growing interest in the last decades. Despite the accumulated evidence, we still do not have an encompassing explanative framework. However, a serious candidate is the interpersonal synergies theory (IST), a model part of the broader complexity approach. In the present paper, we analyze the suitability of IST as an explanation of IC. IST resolves the cognitivist theories' difficulties on IC, but it exhibits inconsistencies that diminish its impact. We argue that IST can only fit from an epistemological (not an ontological) interpretation of the notion of emergence. Secondly, IST confuses 'synergy' with 'coordination', risking mixing explanans with explanandum. Third, as a formal theory, IST obliterates the meaning dimension of human movement. Therefore, it is necessary a more in-depth description of what motor coupling among people means. We argue that attending the vitality dynamics sheds light on the shared meaning implied in coordination.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100914
dc.identifier.eissn1873-3522
dc.identifier.issn0732-118X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100914
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93888
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000701696300002
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaNew ideas in psychology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectInterpersonal coordination
dc.subjectSynchrony
dc.subjectComplexity
dc.subjectSynergies
dc.subjectShared vitality
dc.subjectAffect attunement
dc.titleNot complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen64
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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