Implicit Behavioral Mimicry: Investigating the Impact of Group Membership

Yabar, Y.; Johnston, Lucy; Miles, Lynden K.; Peace, Victoria

doi:10.1007/s10919-006-0010-6

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“…Hidden videocameras registered the participants' behaviours and it was found that the implicit attitudes correlated with unconscious mimicry, that is, the more negative participants were towards Moroccans relative to Dutch, the less relatively they mimicked a Moroccan compared to a Dutch actor. Similar results were previously obtained by Yabar et al (2006), where instead of ethnic attitudes, implicit attitudes towards Christians (versus non-Christians) were used. Finally, several other studies found main effects of ingroupoutgroup distinction on mimicry.…”

Section: Evidence For Social Moderators: Mimickee Characteristicssupporting

confidence: 61%

Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry

Baaren

Janssen

Chartrand

et al. 2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One striking characteristic of human social interactions is unconscious mimicry; people have a tendency to take over each other's posture, mannerisms and behaviours without awareness. Our goal is to make the case that unconscious mimicry plays an important role in human social interaction and to show that mimicry is closely related to and moderated by our connectedness to others. First we will position human unconscious mimicry in relation to types of imitation used in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Then we will provide support for social moderation of mimicry. Characteristics of both the mimicker and the mimickee influence the degree of mimicry in a social interaction. Next, we turn to the positive social consequences of this unconscious mimicry and we will present data showing how being imitated makes people more assimilative in general. In the final section, we discuss what these findings imply for theorizing on the mechanisms of imitation and point out several issues that need to be resolved before a start can be made to integrate this field in the broader context of research on imitation.

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Section: Evidence For Social Moderators: Mimickee Characteristicssupporting

confidence: 61%

Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry

Baaren

Janssen

Chartrand

et al. 2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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175

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“…The emotional convergence between the emitter and the observer enhances social and empathic bonds and thus facilitates prosocial behavior and fosters affiliation (Chartrand and Bargh, 1999;Lakin and Chartrand, 2003;Yabar et al, 2006;Schilbach et al, 2008), yet strict motor resonance processing cannot explain the present activation in the PM. Indeed, anger expressions directed at the observer are perceived as clear signals of non-affiliative intentions and are thus less mimicked than averted anger expressions (Hess and Kleck, 2007;Bourgeois and Hess, 2008).…”

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Early Binding of Gaze, Gesture, and Emotion: Neural Time Course and Correlates

Conty

Dezecache²,

Hugueville³

et al. 2012

J. Neurosci.

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Communicative intentions are transmitted by many perceptual cues, including gaze direction, body gesture, and facial expressions. However, little is known about how these visual social cues are integrated over time in the brain and, notably, whether this binding occurs in the emotional or the motor system. By coupling magnetic resonance and electroencephalography imaging in humans, we were able to show that, 200 ms after stimulus onset, the premotor cortex integrated gaze, gesture, and emotion displayed by a congener. At earlier stages, emotional content was processed independently in the amygdala (170 ms), whereas directional cues (gaze direction with pointing gesture) were combined at ϳ190 ms in the parietal and supplementary motor cortices. These results demonstrate that the early binding of visual social signals displayed by an agent engaged the dorsal pathway and the premotor cortex, possibly to facilitate the preparation of an adaptive response to another person's immediate intention.

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“…This tendency to mimic another person is reduced when the person belongs to a social or racial out-group (Bourgeois & Hess, 2008;Liebert et al, 1972;Losin, Iacoboni, Martin, Cross, & Dapretto, 2012;Neely, Heckel, & Leichtman, 1973;van der Schalk et al, 2011;Weisbuch & Ambady, 2008), and the extent to which we mimic out-group members is negatively related to our implicit prejudice against them. For example, Yabar, Johnston, Miles and Peace (2006) found greater mimicry of a non-Christian confederate than of a Christian confederate among non-Christian participants. They also found that the amount of actions of the Christian that participants mimicked was positively correlated with their implicit attitudes towards Christians.…”

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Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Farmer

Maister

2017

Soc Just Res

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The self is one the most important concepts in social cognition and plays a crucial role in determining questions such as which social groups we view ourselves as belonging to and how we relate to others. In the past decade, the self has also become an important topic within cognitive neuroscience with an explosion in the number of studies seeking to understand how different aspects of the self are represented within the brain. In this paper, we first outline the recent research on the neurocognitive basis of the self and highlight a key distinction between two forms of self-representation. The first is the ''bodily'' self, which is thought to be the basis of subjective experience and is grounded in the processing of sensorimotor signals. The second is the ''conceptual'' self, which develops through our interactions of other and is formed of a rich network of associative and semantic information. We then investigate how both the bodily and conceptual self are related to social cognition with an emphasis on how self-representations are involved in the processing and creation of prejudice. We then highlight new research demonstrating that the bodily and conceptual self are both malleable and that this malleability can be harnessed in order to achieve a reduction in social prejudice. In particular, we will outline strong evidence that modulating people's perceptions of the bodily self can lead to changes in attitudes at the conceptual level. We will highlight a series of studies demonstrating that social attitudes towards various social out-groups (e.g. racial groups) can lead to a reduction in prejudice towards that group. Finally, we seek to place these findings in a broader social context by considering how innovations in virtual reality technology can allow experiences of taking on another's identity are likely to become both more commonplace and more convincing in the future and the various opportunities and risks associated with using such technology to reduce prejudice.

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Implicit Behavioral Mimicry: Investigating the Impact of Group Membership

Cited by 171 publications

References 49 publications

Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry

Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry

Early Binding of Gaze, Gesture, and Emotion: Neural Time Course and Correlates

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

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