FIGURE 2.

A proposal for measuring the latent construct of Social Breathing. We suggest that Social Breathing can be measured during temporally contingent social interactions using repeated measures of the multi-person whole-brain-body system. Higher Social Breathing is indicated by a denser network of connections among the observed measures, which would support the emergence of more complex forms of interpersonal coordination. In contrast, lower Social Breathing would be indicated by fewer or weaker connections among the measured nodes in the network, as indicated by the reduced number of connections and the dotted rather than solid lines in the figure.