Alexandra Paxton

Alexandra Paxton

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I'm an associate professor in the Psychological Sciences Department at UConn, and I take a data-rich approach to understanding human social dynamics.

Publications

Mentees’ names underlined. Asterisk indicates dual first-author position. Articles provided for personal use only.

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

The dynamical hypothesis in situ

Published in Topics in Cognitive Science, 1900

Recommended citation: Paxton, A. (in press). The dynamical hypothesis in situ: Challenges and opportunities for a dynamical social approach to interpersonal coordination. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Socializing ecological psychology, ecologizing social psychology

Published in Ecological Psychology, 1900

Recommended citation: Paxton, A.*, Hall, C.*, Ott, A. N.*, Rivas, L.*, & Thomas, G. F.* (2024). Socializing ecological psychology, ecologizing social psychology: How Reuben Baron shaped the ecological approach to social knowing, cooperation, and values. Ecological Psychology, 36(4), 271-282.
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Grounding social timing

Published in Physics of Life Reviews, 1900

Recommended citation: Dotov, D.,* & Paxton, A.* (2024). Grounding social timing: A commentary on "The evolution of social timing" by Verga et al. (2023). Physics of Life Reviews, 48, 8-10. doi: 10.1007/s10882-021-09798-6
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Toward a dynamic approach of person perception at zero acquaintance

Published in Acta Psychologica, 1900

Recommended citation: Jiang, S., Paxton, A., Ramírez-Esparza, N., & García-Sierra, A. (2023). Toward a dynamic approach of person perception at zero acquaintance: Applying recurrence quantification analysis to thin slices. Acta Psychologica, 243, 103886.

Child-caregiver interactions during a collaborative motor task in children with cerebral palsy

Published in Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 1900

Recommended citation: Schwab, S. M., Carver, N. S., Forman, M., Abney, D. H., Davis, T. J., Riley, M. A., Paxton, A., & Silva, P. L. (2022). Child-caregiver interactions during a collaborative motor task in children with cerebral palsy: A descriptive exploratory study. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 34, 255-277. doi: 10.1007/s10882-021-09798-6
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Community, time, and (con)text

Published in Cognitive Science, 1900

Recommended citation: Paxton, A., Varoquaux, N., Holdgraf, C., & Geiger, R. S. (2022). Community, time, and (con)text: Online communication patterns in open-source software communities and their implications for community health. Cognitive Science, 46>(5), e13134.

Say that again

Published in Frontiers in Psychology, 1900

Recommended citation: Mankovich, A., Wittke, K., Blume, J., Mastergeorge, A. M., Paxton, A., & Naigles, L. R. (2022). Say that again: Quantifying patterns of grammatical production for children with ASD using recurrence analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 999396.

Gesture-speech physics in fluid speech and rhythmic hand movement

Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1900

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., de Jonge-Hoekstra, L., Harrison, S. J., Paxton, A., & Dixon, J. (2021). Gesture-speech physics in fluid speech and rhythmic hand movement. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1491(1), 89-105. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14532

Functional interdependence in coupled dissipative structures

Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1900

Recommended citation: De Bari, B., Paxton, A., Dixon, J. A., Kondepudi, D., & Kay, B. A. (2021). Functional interdependence in coupled dissipative structures: Physical foundations of biological intra- and inter-organism. Entropy, 23(5), 614. doi: 10.3390/e23050614

Cooperation in sound and motion

Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1900

Recommended citation: Abney, D., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C. (2021). Cooperation in sound and motion: Complexity matching in collaborative interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(9), 1760-1771. doi: 10.1037/xge0001018

Reply to Ravignani and Kotz

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1900

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2020). Reply to Ravignani and Kotz: Physical impulses from upper-limb movements impact the respiratory-vocal system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38), 23225-23226. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015452117

Ecological psychology meets ecology

Published in Ecological Psychology, 1900

Recommended citation: Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2020). Ecological psychology meets ecology: Apis mellifera as a model for perception-action, social dynamics, and human factors. Ecological Psychology, 32(4), 192-213. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2020.1836966

Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1900

Recommended citation: Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2020). Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11364-11367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004163117.

Action coordination in non-human self-organizing collectives

Published in Ecological Psychology, 1900

Recommended citation: Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2020). Action coordination in non-human self-organizing collectives: Multidisciplinary lessons from living and nonliving systems. Ecological Psychology, 32(4), 139-142. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2020.1842136

Ad hoc efforts for advancing data science education

Published in PLOS Computational Biology, 1900

Recommended citation: DeMasi, O.*, Paxton, A.*, & Koy, K. (2020). Ad hoc efforts for advancing data science education. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(5), e1007695. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007695

Scale-independent aggression

Published in Complexity, 1900

Recommended citation: Blau, J. J. C., & Paxton, A. (2020). Scale-independent aggression: A fractal analysis of four levels of human aggression. Complexity, 2020, 2047157.