The literature on attitudes toward objects includes seminal research threat appraisals indicating that individuals locate an object in a multidimensional appraisal space defined by the object's perceived degree of being good or bad, weak strong, and passive active. We advance this three ways. First, we generalize information integration with inclusion other individuals’ displayed appraisals, po...

When two people move in synchrony, they become more social. Yet it is not clear how this effect scales up to larger numbers of people. Does a group need to move in unison to affiliate, in what we term unitary synchrony; or does affiliation arise from distributed coordination, patterns of coupled movements between individual members of a group? We developed choreographic tasks that manipulated m...