Using participatory sense-making as a guiding framework, this project situates itself within a shift in the study of social cognition away from individuals’ mental processes and toward interactional processes. It asks, what are some of the dynamic interactive processes by which co-constructed social meaning emerges? And in what way do these dynamics reflect subjective experience? To approach these questions, the project makes use of a mixed methods design (qualitative and quantitative methods) in order to triangulate information collected from measurable features of interactions with detailed reports of individuals’ subjective experience. It builds off of an existing dance improvisation-based paradigm—developed by our collaborator Ivani Santana—through which interactional synchrony can be quantified by comparing the movement between pairs of improvising dancers. Using this experimental design in combination with reflective exercises such as interviews and video recording annotation, we evaluate how individuals’ subjective experiences of emotion, intention, and action reflect ‘objective’ measures of interactional synchrony and information transfer in an effort to deepen our understanding of the relationships and processes that contribute to interpersonal connection.