A grounded exploration of a spiritual idea through lived experience, psychology and relationship research.
Written by Sarah ‘Sy’ Taylor
Former First Responder – Trauma-Informed Writer – Founder of The Inner Growth Path
Rebuilding identity after emotional collapse
THE SHORT ANSWER
What Is Soul Recognition?
Soul recognition is a personal or spiritual description for the immediate sense that another person feels deeply familiar, significant or somehow already known—even when there is little shared history to explain that feeling.
People may experience it as emotional resonance, unusual ease, heightened attention, bodily familiarity or a powerful sense of being understood. For some, it feels calm. For others, it may feel intense or emotionally activating.
The phrase does not have one agreed definition. Soul recognition is not a clinical diagnosis, and science has not established that one soul can literally recognise another.
Spiritual traditions may understand the experience as recognition between souls. Psychology offers other possible influences, including familiarity, attachment, projection, emotional attunement, memory, pattern recognition and the heightened importance of connection during periods of major change.
These explanations do not have to erase the personal meaning of the experience. They simply help us distinguish between what someone genuinely feels and the interpretation placed upon that feeling.
Plainly put: Something about the person feels known before you understand why. The feeling may be meaningful, but the feeling alone cannot confirm what caused it—or what the relationship is meant to become.
ORIGINS AND INTERPRETATIONS
Where Does the Idea of Soul Recognition Come From?
There is no single tradition, historical text or scientific theory that established the modern idea of soul recognition.
Instead, the phrase appears to bring together several older ideas: that people may share a connection beyond their present circumstances, that certain encounters can reveal something important about the self, and that profound familiarity does not always feel adequately explained by ordinary attraction.
Different spiritual and philosophical traditions interpret these experiences differently. Modern relationship language has then combined many of those ideas into terms such as soulmate, twin flame, karmic connection and soul recognition.
These terms sometimes overlap, but they are not interchangeable—and none has one universally accepted meaning.
Spiritual traditions
Many religious and spiritual traditions include beliefs about the soul, reincarnation, destiny or relationships that extend beyond one lifetime.
Some people interpret immediate familiarity through these beliefs—as if something deeper than conscious memory recognises the other person.
However, traditions differ considerably. The contemporary phrase soul recognition should not be presented as one shared or formally defined spiritual teaching.
Philosophy and literature
Philosophers, poets and storytellers have long explored the feeling of finding oneself reflected in another person.
One influential example is the story described in Plato’s Symposium, in which humans search for a lost counterpart. Although frequently connected with modern soulmate language, it is a philosophical myth—not evidence that every powerful connection represents a predetermined partner.
Literature has continued to explore similar themes: recognition, reunion, emotional mirroring and the mysterious feeling of being known.
Modern relationship language
Today, soul recognition is used less as a formally defined belief and more as a personal description of an experience.
People may use it to explain an immediate sense of resonance with a romantic partner, friend, mentor, family member or even someone they meet only briefly.
Online spiritual communities have also connected it with soulmate and twin-flame ideas. This has made the phrase more familiar—but has also encouraged conflicting definitions and, at times, overly certain claims about destiny and permanence.
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION
The history of an idea does not prove or disprove someone’s experience. It shows that human beings have used spiritual stories, philosophy and relationship language to understand profound connection for a very long time.
THE FELT EXPERIENCE
What Does Soul Recognition Feel Like?
Soul recognition is usually described as a sense of familiarity that appears before there is enough shared history to explain it.
You may feel as though you know the person, understand them or recognise something in them—even while knowing that you have only just met. The feeling can be quiet and reassuring, but it can also be intense, disorienting or emotionally activating.
There is no single way that soul recognition is supposed to feel. People interpret bodily sensations, emotional responses and moments of connection through their own histories, beliefs and expectations.
People commonly describe experiences such as:
These experiences may feel profound, but they do not automatically reveal their cause.
Familiarity can arise from genuine compatibility and emotional attunement. It can also be influenced by resemblance, unconscious memory, attachment patterns, projection, chemistry or qualities the person shares with someone from your past.
The feeling is real as an experience. Its meaning still requires time, context and careful reflection.
NOTICE
Feeling calm is not required for a connection to feel significant. Some people describe ease; others experience intensity, nervousness or emotional activation. The response alone cannot tell you whether the connection is safe, compatible or sustainable.
COMMONLY REPORTED SIGNS
6 Signs People Associate With Soul Recognition
Because soul recognition is a personal and spiritual interpretation, there is no test that can confirm it. However, people who use the term often describe several experiences in common.
You do not need to experience every sign, and experiencing several of them does not prove that a person is destined to remain in your life. Think of these as descriptions of a meaningful connection—not instructions about what the relationship must become.
Immediate familiarity
The person may feel familiar even though you have little or no shared history. It can resemble recognition rather than the usual process of slowly getting to know someone.
Feeling deeply seen
You may feel that the person notices or understands something important about you without requiring extensive explanation.
This does not necessarily mean they know everything about you. It describes the subjective feeling of being recognised beneath your usual social presentation.
Unusual emotional resonance
Their words, presence or experiences may affect you more deeply than expected. Something about the interaction feels personally significant, even if you cannot immediately explain why.
Ease alongside intensity
Some people describe comfort, openness or natural conversation. Others experience intensity, nervousness or emotional activation. A connection can also include both responses at different times.
Calmness is not proof of soul recognition, and intensity is not proof of compatibility.
A strong sense of meaning
The meeting may feel as though it matters. You might believe the person has appeared during an important transition, or that the connection is drawing your attention to something within yourself.
The meaning may concern your own growth rather than the future of the relationship.
A lasting internal impact
The encounter may remain with you even if the connection is brief or does not develop into a relationship.
You may continue thinking about what it revealed, what it awakened or how it changed your understanding of yourself and connection.
WHAT THESE SIGNS CANNOT TELL YOU
These experiences cannot confirm that someone is your soulmate, that the feeling is mutual or that the relationship will be healthy and lasting. Those questions require time, communication, consistent behaviour and real-world compatibility.
A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Can Psychology Explain Soul Recognition?
Psychology cannot confirm that one soul literally recognises another. It can, however, help explain some of the processes that may contribute to an immediate sense of familiarity, emotional resonance or significance.
This does not mean the connection is imaginary. It means that a powerful experience can be genuine while its cause remains open to interpretation.
Several psychological processes may overlap with what people describe as soul recognition.
Familiarity and pattern recognition
The brain constantly compares new information with previous experience. A person’s voice, expressions, mannerisms, values or emotional presence may resemble something already familiar—even when you cannot consciously identify the similarity.
This can create the feeling that you somehow know the person before you actually know much about them.
Emotional attunement
Some people respond to each other with unusually strong attention, empathy or conversational ease. They may quickly notice each other’s emotional cues, match the rhythm of the conversation or feel able to communicate without extensive explanation.
This kind of attunement can produce a genuine feeling of being seen and understood.
Perceived similarity
We may feel closer to people who appear to share our values, experiences, emotional language or view of the world.
Importantly, it is sometimes the perception of similarity, rather than objective similarity in every trait, that strengthens early connection. Research into friendship formation found an association between perceived similarity and friendship intensity during the process of becoming acquainted.
Attachment and relational memory
Earlier relationships can shape what feels safe, exciting, compelling or familiar. A new person may activate emotional expectations formed through family relationships, previous partners or other important connections.
Familiarity is not automatically unhealthy. But what feels deeply known may sometimes reflect an established relational pattern rather than evidence of destiny. If you are trying to understand that distinction, read about the difference between attachment and healthy love.
Projection and personal meaning
When little is known about someone, the mind may fill in missing information with hopes, needs, memories or qualities we are longing to recover within ourselves.
This does not mean the connection has no value. Sometimes what we recognise in another person reveals something important about our own identity, grief, growth or unmet needs.
Psychology can explore how the connection is experienced without deciding what it must mean.
BOTH PERSPECTIVES CAN BE HELD
A psychological explanation does not have to remove spiritual or personal meaning. You can remain open to what the experience means while also allowing time, behaviour and reality to show you who the other person actually is.
CONNECTION DURING CHANGE
Why Trauma, Loss and Identity Change May Heighten Connection
Trauma, grief, separation and major identity change can alter the way we experience ourselves and other people.
During these periods, a meaningful connection may feel unusually powerful—not necessarily because trauma makes someone more spiritually perceptive, but because safety, belonging and recognition may carry greater emotional significance.
A person who seems to understand something we have struggled to explain can feel like relief. Someone who reflects a forgotten part of us can feel deeply familiar. A brief moment of recognition can become especially memorable when our sense of self or future has been disrupted.
Your sense of self may be unsettled
After trauma or significant loss, you may no longer feel completely connected to the person you were before.
Roles, relationships, routines and assumptions about the future may have changed. In that uncertainty, meeting someone who reflects a recognisable part of you can feel especially important.
You may not only be responding to who they are. You may also be responding to the version of yourself that becomes visible around them.
If you no longer recognise yourself after what happened, read why identity loss can occur after trauma.
Connection may carry more emotional weight
Loss can make absence, belonging and emotional safety more noticeable.
When someone offers attention, understanding or resonance during that period, the experience may stand out more strongly than it would have at another time.
This does not make the feeling false. It means the circumstances surrounding a connection can influence how significant it becomes.
Avoid saying that everyone becomes “more sensitive” after trauma. Responses vary: some people become more emotionally alert, while others feel numb, detached or less able to connect.
Another person may reflect what is re-emerging
A meaningful connection can sometimes reveal qualities that have become difficult to access within yourself.
The person may seem to reflect:
- The ability to trust again
- A forgotten sense of playfulness
- Emotional or intellectual curiosity
- Confidence that became buried
- The possibility of being understood
- A future that feels more open
This can make the connection feel transformative. But the transformation may be about what has awakened within you, not necessarily about the relationship becoming permanent.
A QUESTION WORTH HOLDING
Am I recognising something uniquely important in this person—or am I also recognising a part of myself that is beginning to return?
These possibilities can exist together. The purpose of the question is not to explain the connection away, but to understand more clearly what it is opening within you.
Feeling emotionally disconnected from yourself? Understand why trauma can create that distance →
FORMS OF CONNECTION
Can Soul Recognition Be Romantic, Platonic or Brief?
Soul recognition is often discussed as though it must describe a romantic or destined relationship. But people report the same sense of familiarity, resonance and recognition in many different forms of connection.
It may occur with a romantic interest, a friend, a mentor, a family member or someone encountered only briefly.
The significance of the experience does not depend on the relationship becoming romantic—or continuing indefinitely.
Romantic recognition
Romantic soul recognition may include attraction, emotional intensity or a sense that the person is different from previous partners.
The connection may feel immediate, but the feeling itself cannot establish compatibility, mutual readiness or the future of the relationship.
A meaningful romantic connection still needs communication, consistency, boundaries and the capacity to build something together.
Platonic recognition
Soul recognition can also be experienced within friendship, mentorship or another non-romantic relationship.
You may feel understood without needing to perform, recognise shared values or experience an unusual sense of trust and emotional ease.
These connections can be deeply influential without containing romantic attraction.
Brief encounters
Some connections last only for a conversation, a particular season or a short period of someone’s life.
The person may offer perspective, awaken a forgotten quality or appear during an important transition. The encounter can remain meaningful even when no continuing relationship develops.
Duration does not always determine impact.
A connection can matter without becoming a partnership, and it can change you without remaining in your life.
Recognising this can help you honour what the experience meant without forcing it into a form that circumstances, compatibility or mutual capacity cannot sustain.
If the relationship has ended but the connection still feels emotionally present, read Soul Recognition After Separation: Meaning, Signs and Letting Go.
UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE
Soul Recognition vs Soulmates, Twin Flames and Chemistry
The terms soul recognition, soulmate, twin flame and chemistry are sometimes used interchangeably. However, they describe different interpretations of human connection.
Understanding the difference can help you remain open to a meaningful experience without allowing a label to determine what the relationship must become.
| Term | What it generally describes | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Soul recognition | An immediate feeling of familiarity, resonance or emotional significance with another person. It may be romantic, platonic or brief. | That the person is your destined partner or that the connection will become a relationship. |
| Soulmate | A spiritual or cultural belief that two people share an unusually meaningful bond or deep compatibility. Definitions differ between people and traditions. | Guaranteed permanence, perfect compatibility or a relationship without difficulty. |
| Twin flame | A modern spiritual belief that two people mirror one another or represent two parts of the same soul. It is often associated with intensity, separation and reunion. | That harmful behaviour, instability or repeated boundary violations should be accepted. It is not a clinical or scientifically established relationship category. |
| Chemistry | Attraction or interpersonal energy that may involve physical desire, conversational ease, emotional excitement or biological responses. | Shared values, emotional availability, safety or long-term compatibility. |
Intensity Is Information, Not Instruction
No spiritual or psychological label can replace consent, reciprocity, consistent behaviour, healthy boundaries and emotional safety.
A connection may feel extraordinary and still be unavailable, incompatible or unsustainable. What the other person repeatedly does matters more than the name given to the connection.
If you are unsure whether a powerful connection reflects secure love or attachment-driven intensity, read Attachment vs Love: How to Tell the Difference.
WHEN FAMILIARITY FEELS INTENSE
Soul Recognition, Attachment and Trauma Bonding
A powerful connection can feel immediate, familiar and deeply significant. Those feelings may be genuine—but the feeling itself cannot tell you whether the relationship is safe, mutual or sustainable.
Soul recognition describes how a connection is experienced. Attachment describes the emotional system involved in closeness and separation. Trauma bonding describes a harmful cycle in which periods of distress, unpredictability or mistreatment become intertwined with moments of relief and affection.
These experiences can sometimes feel similar from the inside, but they are not the same.
Soul recognition
Soul recognition usually refers to an immediate sense of familiarity, resonance or significance.
You may feel:
The experience may be meaningful without becoming a permanent relationship.
Attachment activation
Attachment activation occurs when closeness, uncertainty or possible rejection triggers your need for safety and connection.
You may notice:
Attachment does not make the connection false. It means your emotional system has become strongly involved.
Trauma bonding
A trauma bond can develop through repeated cycles of harm, fear or instability followed by affection, apology or relief.
Possible signs include:
Trauma bonding is not evidence that two people are spiritually destined to remain together.
Soul recognition asks, “Why does this person feel so familiar?” Attachment asks, “Will this person remain available to me?” Trauma bonding can make harm and relief feel inseparable.
The clearest test is what happens over time
An immediate feeling can tell you that an experience matters to you. It cannot yet tell you who the other person is or whether a healthy relationship can develop.
Allow time to reveal whether the connection includes:
- consistency between words and behaviour;
- mutual effort and emotional availability;
- respect for boundaries and consent;
- the ability to repair disagreement without punishment;
- freedom to remain connected to your own identity;
- safety that does not depend on keeping the other person pleased.
A meaningful connection should not require you to abandon your judgement, tolerate repeated harm or prove your love through suffering.
Meaning does not make harm acceptable
You do not have to decide whether a connection was spiritual before responding to unsafe behaviour.
If a relationship involves coercion, threats, control, fear or repeated emotional or physical harm, focus first on your safety and seek appropriate support. A spiritual label should never be used to excuse abuse or override your boundaries.
If the relationship has left you doubting your perceptions or sense of self, continue with Healing After Betrayal Trauma: Gaslighting & Recovery.
Has this connection left you emotionally overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself?
EVIDENCE AND INTERPRETATION
What Can Research Tell Us About Soul Recognition?
Soul recognition is not a clinical diagnosis or a scientifically established process. Researchers have not demonstrated that one soul can literally recognise another, and there is no scientific test that can confirm whether a connection is spiritually destined.
Research can, however, help us understand some of the human experiences that may contribute to feelings of familiarity, resonance and unusual connection.
That distinction allows us to respect the experience without presenting one interpretation as proven fact.
What research can explore
Research can investigate:
- how familiarity and previous experience influence perception;
- how similarity may support early connection;
- how people respond to emotional attunement;
- how attachment history affects closeness and attraction;
- how interpersonal synchrony contributes to social connection;
- how grief, trauma and identity disruption affect relationships;
- how expectation and personal meaning shape an experience.
For example, studies have examined associations between perceived similarity and developing friendship, as well as the role of interpersonal synchrony in social connection and prosocial behaviour.
Research therefore offers several possible explanations for why another person may feel immediately significant—even when you have only just met.
What research cannot establish
Research cannot determine:
- whether two people knew each other in another lifetime;
- whether someone was sent into your life for a specific purpose;
- whether a connection was arranged by fate or the universe;
- whether another person is your soulmate or twin flame;
- whether intense recognition guarantees mutual feelings;
- whether a meaningful connection will become a healthy relationship;
- what the experience must mean to you personally.
These questions belong to spiritual belief, philosophy and individual interpretation rather than established psychological evidence.
A lack of scientific confirmation does not make your experience meaningless. It simply means that its ultimate meaning cannot be proven through research.
Connection is real even when its meaning remains open
Human beings can experience powerful emotional, behavioural and physiological responses in one another’s presence. Research into interpersonal synchrony suggests that people can coordinate aspects of their movement, behaviour and physiological responses, and that synchrony may contribute to connection and prosocial feelings. However, this research does not establish the spiritual meaning of a particular relationship. A recent systematic review found measurable relationships between different forms of interpersonal synchrony, while also identifying limitations and inconsistent findings. Earlier meta-analytic research also found an association between interpersonal synchrony and prosocial attitudes and behaviour. Read the interpersonal synchrony meta-analysis.
Similarly, relationships can influence how people regulate emotion. Social support and interpersonal interaction may affect emotional regulation, but that does not tell us whether a particular person was “meant” to enter someone’s life. Review the research on interpersonal emotion regulation.
You do not have to choose one explanation
You can understand the possible psychological influences on a connection while remaining open to its personal or spiritual meaning.
Research can describe patterns in human experience. It cannot decide what a particular encounter means within the story of your life.
The most grounded approach is to remain curious about the feeling while allowing time, behaviour and reality to reveal the nature of the relationship.
LET MEANING EMERGE OVER TIME
A Grounded Way to Respond to Soul Recognition
You do not have to deny a powerful connection, and you do not have to decide immediately what it means.
The most grounded response is to remain curious while allowing time and reality to provide information that intensity cannot.
Use these five steps to hold the experience without losing yourself inside it.
Notice the experience without naming the outcome
Allow yourself to acknowledge what you feel.
You might recognise familiarity, calm, intensity, curiosity or a strong sense that the encounter matters. You do not need to suppress those feelings—but you also do not need to translate them immediately into soulmate, destiny or forever.
Try replacing certainty with curiosity:
“This connection feels significant to me. I can remain open without deciding yet what it must become.”
Separate the feeling from the person
A feeling can be genuine before you know whether your interpretation is accurate.
Ask yourself:
- What do I actually know about this person?
- What have they consistently shown me?
- What am I assuming or imagining?
- Which qualities belong to them, and which may reflect something awakening in me?
This does not diminish the connection. It allows you to encounter the real person instead of relating only to what they represent.
Stay connected to your own life
Continue your routines, friendships, responsibilities and personal goals.
Be particularly careful if the connection makes you want to abandon plans, withdraw from other relationships or organise your emotional world around someone you barely know.
Healthy connection should allow your identity to expand—not require it to disappear.
Link “your identity to expand” to:
Identity Loss After Trauma: Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself
Look for reciprocity and consistency
A meaningful relationship requires more than a powerful internal experience.
Watch whether the other person:
- communicates clearly;
- shows sustained interest;
- respects your boundaries;
- makes room for your needs;
- behaves consistently;
- takes responsibility when something goes wrong;
- has the capacity to build the same kind of connection you want.
Recognition may begin the story. Reciprocity determines whether two people can write it together.
Let time reveal the meaning
Some connections become partnerships. Others become friendships, lessons, catalysts or brief encounters that alter how you understand yourself.
You do not need to force the connection into one category.
Let time reveal:
- whether familiarity becomes trust;
- whether intensity settles into safety;
- whether attraction becomes compatibility;
- whether meaning is supported by mutual action;
- whether the connection helps you become more yourself.
Something does not have to last forever to have mattered. But something feeling meaningful does not require you to hold onto it forever either.
Questions to consider
Before deciding what the connection means, ask:
- Do I feel more grounded—or increasingly dysregulated?
- Am I responding to who this person is or what I hope they represent?
- Is the connection being built by both of us?
- Can I honour the experience without rushing its outcome?
- Does remaining connected require me to compromise my boundaries or identity?
The strongest evidence of a healthy connection is not how extraordinary it feels at the beginning. It is what both people are able to build from it.
A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
What Soul Recognition Has Taught Me
For many years, I believed my former wife was my soulmate.
It was not a dramatic or idealised belief. It was the quiet certainty that can grow through years of shared life, commitment and meaning. At the time, I believed that recognising someone so deeply meant they were meant to remain beside you.
After my marriage ended, I experienced moments of profound recognition with other people. Some felt calm and familiar. Others seemed to bypass ordinary conversation and reach something in me that already understood.
Those experiences challenged what I thought soul recognition meant.
They taught me that a connection can be real without being permanent. Someone can awaken a forgotten part of you without becoming your partner. A person can matter deeply without being able—or meant—to build a life with you.
“Some connections arrive to wake you up, not to walk beside you forever.”
— Sy
The greatest change has been learning not to make intensity responsible for predicting the future.
I can honour a feeling without rushing to define it. I can remain open to spiritual meaning while still looking at compatibility, emotional availability, boundaries and behaviour. I can allow someone to be significant without making them responsible for completing my healing.
For me, soul recognition no longer means, “This must be my person.”
It means something in me is awake enough to recognise resonance—and grounded enough to let reality show me what that resonance is here to become.
Read the personal story
In my companion article, I share more about believing my marriage represented permanent soul recognition, experiencing meaningful connections after separation and learning to let connection exist without turning it immediately into destiny.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions About Soul Recognition
Soul recognition can feel difficult to explain because the experience often sits between emotion, psychology and spiritual interpretation. These answers clarify what the feeling may—and may not—tell you about a connection.
WHEN THE CONNECTION HAS UNSETTLED YOU
Find Your Ground Before You Decide What It Means
A powerful connection can awaken hope, longing, grief or parts of your identity that have been quiet for a long time.
If the experience has left you emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself or unsure what to do next, you do not need to solve the relationship immediately.
Begin by helping your nervous system settle and giving yourself enough space to hear your own thoughts again.
The free 24-Hour Emotional Recovery Starter Guide will help you move through the first difficult hours with simple, grounded steps—without demanding clarity before you are ready.
Start with what feels manageable. One small step is enough.
CONTINUE YOUR PATH
Choose What You Need Next
A meaningful connection can leave you with different questions. Choose the path that most closely reflects what you are trying to understand now.
IF THE CONNECTION CAME AFTER LOSS
Soul Recognition After Separation
Read my personal reflection on believing my former wife was my soulmate, recognising meaningful connections after our separation and learning that significance does not always promise permanence.
IF INTENSITY IS CREATING CONFUSION
Attachment vs Love
Explore how love, attachment, fear and emotional dependency can exist together—and how to tell when fear may be directing your choices or causing you to lose yourself.
IF YOU NEED A CLEARER PATH
Stage 2 — Understand
Explore the relationship, nervous-system and identity patterns that may be shaping your experience. Begin with the question that most closely matches what you are going through now.
Not sure which article fits? Begin with the Identity Rebuild Path and choose the stage that reflects what you need now.
ABOUT THIS ARTICLE
Sources and Perspective
How This Article Was Written
This article brings together lived experience, psychological research and spiritual reflection.
I write as someone who has experienced trauma, betrayal, identity disruption and the unexpected forms connection can take after loss. Those experiences shape the questions I explore, but they do not make my interpretation universal.
Where this article discusses psychological processes, I have used research to help explain experiences such as perceived similarity, emotional regulation and interpersonal synchrony. Research is not used to prove that soul recognition is a literal or scientifically established phenomenon.
You are free to understand the experience through a spiritual, psychological or personal lens—or to remain uncertain about what it means.
Sarah ‘Sy’ Taylor
Former First Responder · Trauma-Informed Writer · Founder of The Inner Growth Path
Research Consulted
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Selfhout, Denissen, Branje and Meeus examined how perceived and actual similarity were associated with friendship intensity during early acquaintanceship.
View the study on PubMed - Interpersonal emotion regulation and social support
This review explores how relationships and social support may influence emotional regulation.
View the review on PubMed - Interpersonal synchrony and prosocial connection
This meta-analysis examined the relationship between interpersonal synchrony and prosocial attitudes and behaviour.
View the meta-analysis on PubMed - Neural, physiological and behavioural synchrony
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined relationships between different forms of interpersonal synchrony while noting limitations and inconsistent findings.
View the systematic review on PubMed
Educational notice: This article shares lived experience and general educational information. It is not medical or psychological advice, a diagnosis or a substitute for individual support from a qualified professional. If a relationship involves coercion, threats, abuse or concerns about your immediate safety, contact an appropriate local support service.