Mimicry and Helping Behavior: An Evaluation of Mimicry on Explicit Helping Request

Guéguen, Nicolas; Martin, Angélique; Meineri, Sébastien

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“…Fire emergency is typical of virtual emergency training (Cha et al, 2012;DeChamplain et al, 2012;Dugdale et al, 2004;Julien & Shaw, 2003;Li et al, 2004;Mol et al, 2008;Ren et al, 2008;Tate et al, 1997;Toups et al, 2009Toups et al, , 2011. Time pressure is a typical emergency used in social psychology studies of discrimination in helping behavior (Darley & Batson, 1973;Guéguen, Martin, & Meineri, 2011;Saucier et al, 2005). In a third, control condition, no emergency (neither fire nor time pressure) affected the participant.…”

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Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

Gamberini

Chittaro

Spagnolli

et al. 2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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Section: The Present Studymentioning

confidence: 96%

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

Gamberini

Chittaro

Spagnolli

et al. 2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…For example, being imitated or mimicked has reliably shown to increase prosocial behaviours in adults, which extend beyond the mimicry interaction (van Baaren, Janssen, Chartrand & Dijksterhuis, ). In addition, after being mimicked, participants are more likely to agree with an explicit request for help (Guéguen, Martin & Meineri, ) and be more spontaneously helpful. This tendency seems to be in place very early: 18‐month olds are more likely to help pick up pencils after an experimenter has mimicked them (Carpenter, Uebel & Tomasello, ).…”

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The functions of imitative behaviour in humans

2018

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This article focuses on the question of the function of imitation and whether current accounts of imitative function are consistent with our knowledge about imitation's origins. We first review theories of imitative origin concluding that empirical evidence suggests that imitation arises from domain‐general learning mechanisms. Next, we lay out a selective account of function that allows normative functions to be ascribed to learned behaviours. We then describe and review four accounts of the function of imitation before evaluating the relationship between the claim that imitation arises out of domain‐general learning mechanisms and theories of the function of imitation.

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“…Numerous studies confirm that non-verbal interpersonal mimicry increases affiliation and positive social judgment as well as pro-social behavior not only toward the mimicker but also toward people not involved in the mimicry situation, indicating that being mimicked not only leads to an increased liking toward the interaction partner, but to an increased pro-social orientation in general (van Baaren et al, 2004; Ashton–James et al, 2007; Fischer-Lokou et al, 2011. ; Guéguen et al, 2011; Stel and Harinck, 2011). This is true for the mimickee as well as the mimicker (Stel et al, 2008).…”

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Effects of Empathic Paraphrasing – Extrinsic Emotion Regulation in Social Conflict

Seehausen¹,

Kazzer²,

Bajbouj³

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Front. Psychology

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In the present study, we investigated the effects of empathic paraphrasing as an extrinsic emotion regulation technique in social conflict. We hypothesized that negative emotions elicited by social conflict can be regulated extrinsically in a conversation by a listener following the narrator’s perspective and verbally expressing cognitive empathy. Twenty participants were interviewed on an ongoing or recently self-experienced social conflict. The interviewer utilized 10 standardized open questions inviting participants to describe their perception of the conflict. After each of the 10 descriptions, the interviewer responded by either paraphrasing or taking notes (control condition). Valence ratings pertaining to the current emotional state were assessed during the interview along with psychophysiological and voice recordings. Participants reported feeling less negative after hearing the interviewer paraphrase what they had said. In addition, we found a lower sound intensity of participants’ voices when answering to questions following a paraphrase. At the physiological level, skin conductance response, as well as heart rate, were higher during paraphrasing than during taking notes, while blood volume pulse amplitude was lower during paraphrasing, indicating higher autonomic arousal. The results show that demonstrating cognitive empathy through paraphrasing can extrinsically regulate negative emotion on a short-term basis. Paraphrasing led to enhanced autonomic activation in recipients, while at the same time influencing emotional valence in the direction of feeling better. A possible explanation for these results is that being treated in an empathic manner may stimulate a more intense emotion processing helping to transform and resolve the conflict.

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Mimicry and Helping Behavior: An Evaluation of Mimicry on Explicit Helping Request

Cited by 39 publications

References 7 publications

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

The functions of imitative behaviour in humans

Effects of Empathic Paraphrasing – Extrinsic Emotion Regulation in Social Conflict

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