The Chameleon Effect as Social Glue: Evidence for the Evolutionary Significance of Nonconscious Mimicry

By Jessica L. Lakin, V. Jefferis, C. M. Cheng, T. Chartrand. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “…(see below), suggesting that both reliably serve the goal of interpersonal coordination more broadly, which is to facilitate and regulate the numerous and complex social interactions people navigate daily (Chartrand & van Baaren 2009, Knoblich & Sebanz 2006, Lakin et al. 2003, Marsh et al. 2009).”
Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context (2010, result): “This idea is consistent with previous work showing that interactions partners often mirror each other’s emotions (e.g., Hatfield et al., 1994; Lakin et al., 2003), such that increases in positive emotion by one may increase the likelihood of positive emotion in the other.”
Emotional mimicry: why and when we mimic emotions (2014, background): “Although the matchedmotor hypothesis does acknowledge the role of affiliation in strengthening or weakening the mimicry response (e.g., Lakin et al., 2003), affiliation is not a crucial prerequisite in this view.”
Bridging the Gap between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing (2012, neutral): “Mimicry and coordination play a major role in establishing (and accounting for) a good quality of rapport [113], [114], [115], and several approaches aim at their measurement and detection.”
MIMICRY AND ME: THE IMPACT OF MIMICRY ON SELF-CONSTRUAL (2007, neutral): “While several researchers have proposed explanations for why interpersonal mimicry might automatically affect social attitudes and behaviors ( Lakin, Jefferis, Cheng, & Chartrand, 2003; Meltzoff, 1990; Schmidt & O’Brien, 1997), there has been no empirically demonstrated explanation for how such con”
The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, methodology): “…features evoke social attitudes and emotions in source and target accent groups (e.g., betrayal and ostracization or gratification and affiliation, Lakin et al. 2003; see also the literature on Foreign Accent Syndrome, e.g., Moen 2000); sensitivity to accent variation is calibrated by relevant…”
Social signal processing: Survey of an emerging domain (2009, background): “More specifically no automatic analysis of social interactions is possible without taking into account the basic mechanisms governing social behaviours that the psychologists have investigated for decades, such as the chameleon effect (mutual imitation of people aimed at showing liking or affiliatio”
Chameleons in Imagined Conversations: A New Approach to Understanding Coordination of Linguistic Style in Dialogs (2011, background): “…embedded in the language-generation process as to have transformed into a reflex not requiring any social triggering.5 Indeed, it has been argued that unconscious mimicry is partly innate (Chartrand and Bargh, 1999), perhaps due to evolutionary pressure to foster relationships (Lakin et al., 2003).”
Active Listening in Peer Interviews: The Influence of Message Paraphrasing on Perceptions of Listening Skill (2010, background): “People tend to mimic each other during interactions (for a review, see Lakin, Jefferis, Cheng, & Chartrand, 2003 ), and they tend to mimic people they like more than people they dislike (eg, Karrenmans & Verwijmeren, 2008 ).”