Imitation of emotion: When meaning leads to aversion

Velde, Sytske Willemien van der; Stapel, Diederik A.; Gordijn, Ernestine

doi:10.1002/ejsp.667

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“…Both effects were absent for participants scoring low on communal strength (exchange relationships). Furthermore, we found that strangers' angry faces were mimicked, consistent with other research on facial responses (e.g., Van der Velde et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…First, we investigated the possibility that accommodation may also take place spontaneously. We hypothesized that one's partner's angry face would be accommodated by a spontaneous smile, whereas a stranger's angry face would be met with mimicry (see also Epstude & Mussweiler, 2009;Van der Velde, Stapel, & Gordijn, 2010). Second, we investigated the relation between more abstracted and less abstracted, more experiential representations of relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Face of Love

Häfner

IJzerman²

2011

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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The present research investigated whether accommodation, typically formulated as the tendency to deliberately inhibit a destructive reaction in response to a partner's destructive behavior, could also occur spontaneously. Supporting this notion, results of the first study revealed that participants respond to their partner's angry face with a spontaneous smile, whereas strangers' angry faces are mimicked and thus lead to a spontaneous frown. Importantly, the facial EMG data are moderated by participants' daily interaction styles: People perceiving themselves in a communal relationship show spontaneous acts of accommodation, whereas this is not the case for people in exchange relationships. The moderation occurred in our first (spontaneous) and third (forced accommodation) studies. The results of the second study replicated the first study in that participants in communal relationships frowned less toward partner's subliminally presented angry faces but more to their sad faces. The authors discuss their findings as spontaneous social emotion regulation.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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The Face of Love

Häfner

IJzerman²

2011

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…Congruent expressions (e.g. frowning) to displays of anger are thus unlikely to increase affiliation and might in fact convey hostile intention and initiate agonistic interactions (van der Velde et al, 2010;Van Kleef, 2010). The case of fear deserves some more elaboration.…”

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The role of oxytocin in the facial mimicry of affiliative vs. non-affiliative emotions

Pavarini

Sun

Mahmoud

et al. 2019

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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“…The effect of mimicry on attitudes is that of increased favoring of the mimickee (e.g., larger tips offered to bartenders mimicking speech and facial expression; Van Baaren et al, 2003 ). The mechanism is reciprocal – the mimicker is more positively inclined towards the person he mimics ( Chartrand and Bargh, 1999 ; van Baaren et al, 2004 ; van der Velde et al, 2010 ). Some researchers have reported that mimicking stimulates interpersonal closeness as well as perceived similarity to the self, and enhances the flow of interaction ( Bernieri and Rosenthal, 1991 ; Chartrand and Bargh, 1999 ; Bailenson and Yee, 2005 ; Stel et al, 2006 ).…”

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The Influence of Mimicry on the Reduction of Infra-Humanization

Szuster

Wojnarowska

2016

Front. Psychol.

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The paper investigates the role of mimicry in the reduction of infra-humanization. Mimicry as an automatic imitation of a partner’s behavior (this is known as “social glue”) connects people (Miles et al., 2010). Empirical findings have confirmed that mimicry leads to favorable treatment of the mimicker (Van Baaren et al., 2003). The mechanism is reciprocal: the mimicker is more positively inclined towards the person mimicked (Chartrand and Bargh, 1999). Mimicry increases the sense of interpersonal closeness, reciprocal similarity, and facilitates the flow of interaction and helping behavior (Stel et al., 2008). At the same time, results point to a spontaneous inhibition of mimicry in the contact with members of negatively stereotyped groups (Bourgeois and Hess, 2008). So than, there are reasons to believe that purposeful activation of mimicry may reduce manifestations of negative attitudes towards others, i.e., infra-humanization. It was expected that imitating a model shown on video would lower the level of infra-humanization, i.e., perceiving another individual as less capable than the Self of experiencing exclusively human (secondary) emotions. The study sample consisted of 117 female students. The study followed an experimental design and was conducted individually. It employed questionnaires and a purpose-made video recording showing a model whose facial expressions were to be mimicked by the participants. The results confirmed the predictions. Mimicking facial expressions reduced the level of infra-humanization compared to the no mimicking and control conditions [F(2,114) = 3.39, p = 0.037, η2 = 0.06].

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Imitation of emotion: When meaning leads to aversion

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

The Face of Love

The Face of Love

The role of oxytocin in the facial mimicry of affiliative vs. non-affiliative emotions

The Influence of Mimicry on the Reduction of Infra-Humanization

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