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Sharing Happy Stories Increases Interpersonal Closeness: Interpersonal Brain Synchronization as a Neural Indicator

Enhui Xie, Qing Yin, Keshuang Li, Samuel A. Nastase, Ruqian Zhang, Ning Wang and Xianchun Li
eNeuro 8 November 2021, 8 (6) ENEURO.0245-21.2021; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0245-21.2021
Enhui Xie
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Qing Yin
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Keshuang Li
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Samuel A. Nastase
2Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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Ruqian Zhang
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Ning Wang
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Xianchun Li
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0245-21.2021
PubMed 
34750155
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History 
  • Received June 1, 2021
  • Revision received September 27, 2021
  • Accepted September 30, 2021
  • Published online November 8, 2021.
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Copyright © 2021 Xie et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Author Information

  1. Enhui Xie1,*,
  2. Qing Yin1,*,
  3. Keshuang Li1,
  4. Samuel A. Nastase2,
  5. Ruqian Zhang1,
  6. Ning Wang1 and
  7. Xianchun Li1
  1. 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  2. 2Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Xianchun Li at xcli{at}psy.ecnu.edu.cn.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: Q.Y., R.Z., N.W., and X.L. designed research; E.X., Q.Y., R.Z., and N.W. performed research; E.X. analyzed data; E.X., K.L., S.A.N., and X.L. wrote the paper.

  2. ↵* E.X. and Q.Y. contributed equally to this work.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Shanghai Key Base of Humanities and Social Science Grant Psychology-2018, National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants 32071082 and 71942001, the Key Specialist Projects of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning Grant ZK2015B01, and the Programs Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning Grant 201540114.

Funding

  • the Shanghai Key Base of Humanities and Social Science

    Psychology-2018
  • the National Natural Science Foundation of China

    32071082; 71942001
  • Key Specialist Projects of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning

    ZK2015B01
  • the Programs Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning

    201540114

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