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Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental ...
Brito, R.; Waldzus, S.; Schubert, T. W.; Sekerdej, M.; Louceiro, A.; Simão, C.Relational models theory provides an alternative framework to study group and intergroup processes. One of four models people use to constitute groups is communal sharing (CS). Ethnographic and experimental evidence suggests that CS is produced by concrete and symbolic enactments of connections between bodies (cuddling, touching, synchronicity, commensality). We tested the effect of commensality on CS and ingro...
Keeping in touch with context: non-verbal behavior as a manifestation of commun...
Sekerdej, M.; Simão, C.; Waldzus, S.; Brito, R.This research investigated the influence of observed touch on the perceptions of communality and dominance in dyadic interactions. We manipulated four key situational features of haptic behavior in two experiments: the initiation, reciprocity, the degree of formality of touch (Studies 1 and 2), and the context of the interaction (Study 2). The results showed that the default perception of touch, irrespective of...
The contexts and structures of relating to others: How memberships in different...
Brito, R.; Waldzus, S.; Sekerdej, M.; Schubert, T.A study tested hypotheses derived from relational models theory on how four models communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing - are used to structure relationships in different types of social groupings. Portuguese participants rated 10 relationships on the Modes of Relationships Questionnaire and reported their shared group memberships. The four-factor structure of the models wa...