Interpersonal motor alignment is a ubiquitous behavior in daily social life. It is a building block for higher social cognition, including empathy and mentalizing and promotes positive social effects. It can be observed as mimicry, synchrony and automatic imitation, to name a few. These phenomena rely on motor resonance processes, i.e., a direct link between the perception of an action and its execution. While a considerable literature debates its underlying mechanisms and measurement methods, the question of how motor alignment comes about and changes in ontogeny all the way until adulthood, is rarely discussed specifically. In this review we will focus on the link between interpersonal motor alignment, positive social effects and social cognition in infants, children, and adolescents, demonstrating that this link is present early on in development. Yet, in reviewing the existing literature pertaining to social psychology and developmental social cognitive neuroscience, we identify a knowledge gap regarding the healthy developmental changes in interpersonal motor alignment especially in adolescence.

人际运动对齐是日常社交生活中普遍存在的行为。它是提高社会认知度（包括移情和心理）的基础，并促进积极的社会影响。可以将其视为模仿，同步和自动模仿，仅举几例。这些现象依赖于运动共振过程，即动作感知与执行之间的直接联系。尽管大量文献都在争论其潜在的机制和测量方法，但很少具体讨论运动对齐如何发生以及个体发育一直到成年的问题。在这篇评论中，我们将重点关注婴儿，儿童和青少年之间的人际交往能力调整，积极的社会影响和社会认知之间的联系，证明此链接在开发的早期就存在。然而，在回顾与社会心理学和发展性社会认知神经科学有关的现有文献时，我们发现了关于人际运动取向，特别是青春期中健康发展变化的知识空白。