Male and Female Differences in Nonconscious Mimicry: A Systematic Review

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“…As a result, it is difficult to assess whether the scores reflected an increase, a decrease or no change in participants' emotional responses, which makes the interpretation of the effects of the senders' traits on these responses less straightforward. Second, although previous research on gender effects in emotional contagion and mimicry is highly inconclusive (for a review, see Lehane, 2015), we did not test any gender effects in the current study because the samples were too small and the number of men in these samples was low. However, given that some studies suggest that sensitivity to social and emotional information may differ across genders (for a review, see Fischer et al, 2018), testing the role of the receivers gender in emotional contagion and mimicry would be an important extension of the current findings.…”

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The “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry

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Three studies investigated the effects of two fundamental dimensions of social perception on emotional contagion (i.e., the transfer of emotions between people). Rooting our hypotheses in the Dual Perspective Model of Agency and Communion (Abele and Wojciszke in Adv Exp Soc Psychol 50:198–255, 10.1016/B978-0-12-800284-1.00004-7, 2014), we predicted that agency would strengthen the effects of communion on emotional contagion and emotional mimicry (a process often considered a key mechanism behind emotional contagion). To test this hypothesis, we exposed participants to happy, sad, and angry senders characterized by low vs. high communion and agency. Our results demonstrated that, as expected, the effects of the two dimensions on socially induced emotions were interactive. The strength and direction of these effects, however, were consistent with our predictions only when the senders expressed happiness. When the senders expressed sadness, we found no effects of agency or communion on participants’ emotional responses, whereas for anger a mixed pattern emerged. Overall, our results align with the notion that emotional contagion and mimicry are modulated not only by the senders’ traits but also by the social meaning of the expressed emotion.

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The “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry

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Are Vocal Pitch Changes in Response to Facial Expressions of Emotions Potential Cues of Empathy? A Preliminary Report

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Ramachandra

2016

J Psycholinguist Res

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Previous research has demonstrated that even brief exposures to facial expressions of emotions elicit facial mimicry in receivers in the form of corresponding facial muscle movements. As well, vocal and verbal patterns of speakers converge in conversations, a type of vocal mimicry. There is also evidence of cross-modal mimicry in which emotional vocalizations elicit corresponding facial muscle activity. Further, empathic capacity has been associated with enhanced tendency towards facial mimicry as well as verbal synchrony. We investigated a type of potential cross-modal mimicry in a simulated dyadic situation. Specifically, we examined the influence of facial expressions of happy, sad, and neutral emotions on the vocal pitch of receivers, and its potential association with empathy. Results indicated that whereas both mean pitch and variability of pitch varied somewhat in the predicted directions, empathy was correlated with the difference in the variability of pitch while speaking to the sad and neutral faces. Discussion of results considers the dimensional nature of emotional vocalizations and possible future directions.

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