Séminaire Pablo ARIAS

Social interaction research is lacking an experimental paradigm enabling researchers to understand how specific social signals (e.g. vocal/facial expressions or physical attributes) causally influence social behavior. To go beyond these limitations, we built the experimental platform DuckSoup. DuckSoup is a video-conference experimental platform that enables researchers to transform the voices and faces of participants with transformation filters in real time during interactions.  During this talk, I will show how we use DuckSoup to align (or misalign) the smiles of dating participants with smile transformation algorithms, to investigate how smile alignment causally influences liking. I will conclude by presenting my vision for the future of social interaction research. Particularly, one where we are able to (1) scale social cognition experiments by collecting dozens of interacting participants in parallel and in different cultures, (2) reveal how specific social (e.g. vocal alignement or vocal expressivity) influence social behaviors and (3) reveal the multimodal mechanisms recruited by such reactions.