Research Program / Claims / biological-communication-10

Animals communicate danger stances through body language, movements, and ritualized postures; symbolic displays can avoid actual violence and resolve conflicts.

动物通过身体语言、动作和仪式姿态沟通危险立场,象征性展示可避免实际暴力并化解冲突。

Concept biological communication · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status supported

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Animal part: repeated low-risk interactions with about 100 dogs, blind coders analyze postures and probability of aggression escalation, controlling for distance, familiarity, and initial arousal. Human part: about 150 pairs of participants in standardized disagreement negotiations randomly receive face-turning, eye contact, or neutral actions, using fNIRS dual-brain recording, eye tracking, voice, and conflict scores; include identical video replay, non-interactive actions, and pseudo-pair controls, correcting for respiration, heart rate, head movement, and superficial blood flow. Each pair tested twice, one week apart, project 18 months; additionally use a stop-signal task to test whether inhibitory control explains behavioral effects.
Suggested paper title
Gaze Aversion and Conflict De-escalation: A Pre-registered Behavioral and fNIRS Hyperscanning Study
What it would overturn
Postures reducing conflict escalation risk does not overturn mainstream hypotheses because ritualized signaling and conflict assessment are already established explanations in ethology.
Candidate labs / funders
Chiara Mariti,比萨大学,所列犬沟通研究作者; Joy Hirsch,耶鲁大学脑功能实验室,研究实时人际互动:[实验室](https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/hirsch/)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Low; consistent with existing animal signaling theory, no species, posture meaning, or conditions specifying when conflicts escalate rather than de-escalate are specified.
Note
No listed evidence clearly attributes face-turning to end disputes to mirror neurons; fNIRS cannot identify individual mirror neurons, and inter-brain synchrony may also arise from shared stimuli, actions, or physiological rhythms.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim biological-communication-10, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/biological-communication-10