TABLE 2.
Mirroring activities, video sampling, and rating.
| Video type | Activity | Video sampling method | Quantitative and qualitative data collected | Raters |
| Leading | Leading the partner when instructed to mirror each other | Systematic sampling: 30 s taken from the middle of the activity | All scales rated Short descriptions of participant’s movement and interaction written by all raters | Three interaction quality raters for all video clips One primary synchrony rater for all segments, a second synchrony rater on 20% of the video clips |
| Following | Following the partner when instructed to mirror each other | |||
| Open-ended dance | Open-ended dance with instructions to “stay in contact with your partner,” not assigned leading or following role | All scales rated Short descriptions of participant’s movement and interaction written by all raters Additional page with movement characteristics of interest completed by synchrony scale raters | Three interaction quality raters for all video clips Two synchrony raters for all video clips | |
| Interactive behaviors | Any of the above mirroring tasks | Purposive sampling: 30 s selected for most interactive behaviors |