Facial mimicry and emotional contagion to dynamic emotional facial expressions and their influence on decoding accuracy.

By Ursula Hess, Sylvie Blairy. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Social messages of crying faces: Their influence on anticipated person perception, emotions and behavioural responses (2006, background): “…studies found that sadness, anger, and fear expressions generally elicited the corresponding emotion in observers (Blairy, Herrera, & Hess, 1999; Hess & Blairy, 2001; Lundqvist & Dimberg, 1995) suggesting a process like emotional contagion (Hatfield, Cacioppo, & Rapson, 1994; Mehrabian &…”
Enhanced Experience of Emotional Arousal in Response to Dynamic Facial Expressions (2007, background): “Previous experimental studies have consistently found that static presentation of facial expressions of emotion elicits a subjective emotional experience (Dimberg, 1988; Hess & Blairy, 2001; Johnsen, Thayer & Hugdahl, 1995; Lundqvist & Dimberg, 1995; Wild, Erb & Bartels, 2001).”
The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion: Toward an Integrative Theory of Emotions as Social Information (2018, background): “…and nonconsciously mimicked and produce congruent emotional states via various forms of afferent feedback (i.e., physiological feedback from facial, vocal, and postural movements; e.g., Adelmann & Zajonc, 1989; Hess & Blairy, 2001; Flack, 2006; Neumann & Strack, 2000; Wild, Erb, & Bartels, 2001).”
To What Extent is the Experience of Empathy Mediated by Shared Neural Circuits? (2010, background): “However, another study did not find any relation between emotion recognition performance and participants’ tendency to mimic dynamic displays of emotions (Hess & Blairy, 2001).”
Positive Empathy and Prosocial Behavior: A Neglected Link (2016, background): “Moreover, adults showed comparable levels of self-reported affect for happiness and sadness (although happiness tended to be higher) in response to happy and sad events described by other people and their corresponding facial expressions (U. Hess & Blairy, 2001).”
Emotional contagion as a precursor to collective emotions (2014, background): “For a review of the factors that shape the likelihood that people will (or will not) mimic others’ emotional expressions, see Hess and Blair (2001), Hess and Bourgeois (2006), and Hess and colleagues (this volume).”
The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “…emotional contagion more than men (Sonnby-Borgström et al. 2008)], but it seems reasonable to assume that emotional contagion effects are at least sometimes grounded in people’s automatic mimicry of others’ facial expressions (although there is debate about this issue; e.g., Hess & Blairy 2001).”
Coherence between Emotion and Facial Expression: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments (2013, background): “This study should, however, be treated with caution because, as the film clip showed a crying woman, some facial expressions may have been due to mimicry (Hess & Blairy, 2001).”
Emotion is for influence (2011, background): “One type of emotional contagion occurs when individuals are exposed to others' nonverbal displays of emotion (eg, facial, vocal, and postural expressions), which may be mimicked and produce congruent emotional states via afferent feedback (ie, physiological feedback from facial, vocal, and postural ”
Neuroscientific Evidence for Simulation and Shared Substrates in Emotion Recognition: Beyond Faces (2009, background): “…Martin, & Stepper, 1988), their emotion recognition performance was reduced (Niedenthal, Brauer, Halberstadt, & Innes-Ker, 2001).2 That said, Hess and Blairy (2001) did not find any relation between emotion recognition performance, as measured by an emotion rating task, and subjects’…”
Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy (2007, result): “This agrees with previous studies demonstrating that facial mimicry to observed emotional expressions also occurs in the absence of a contagious emotional response (e.g., Hess & Blairy, 2001) and may be correlated with individual differences in empathic ability (Sonnby-Borgstrom, 2002).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “Observers mimic target postures (Chartrand & Bargh, 1999; Chartrand & Dalton, 2008) and facial movements (Hess & Blairy, 2001; Lundqvist, 1995; Niedenthal, Brauer, Halberstadt, & Innes-Ker, 2001) and are quicker to perform actions they see others perform concurrently (for a review, see Heyes, 2011).”
New Perspectives on Emotional Contagion: A Review of Classic and Recent Research on Facial Mimicry and Contagion (2014, background): “…Bradley, Dimoulas, & Lang, 2002; Weyers, Muhlberger, Hefele, & Pauli, 2006; Wild, Erb, & Bartels, 2001), but that viewing emotional facial expressions elicits changes in emotional state (Blairy et al., 1999; Hess & Blairy, 2001; Laird et al., 1994; Lundqvist & Dimberg, 1995; Wild et al., 2001).”
The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality. (2012, background): “Research shows that the presentation of simple facial expressions, depicting various emotions, can induce emotional contagion (Hess & Blairy, 2001; Wild, Erb, & Bartels, 2001).”