Sponteous facial mimicry, liking and emotional contagion

By D. McIntosh. 2006

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The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “Participants mimic friends more than strangers and likeable confederates more than unlikeable confederates (McIntosh 2006; see also Likowski et al. 2008).”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, background): “This fast response appears to be the basis of emotional contagion, in which emotions spread from individual to individual through mimicry, for instance, when someone smiles and observers immediately do the same (Lakin et al., 2003; McIntosh, 2006).”
On the positive aspects of customers: Customer‐initiated support and affective crossover in employee–customer dyads (2011, result): “path) is in accordance with research on positive emotional contagion (cf. Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002; McIntosh, 2006; Sy et al., 2005).”
Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes (2008, background): “McIntosh (2006) manipulated relationship quality by confronting participants in an interview situation with either a friendly acting confederate with similar habits and tastes or with an annoying confederate with dissimilar habits and tastes.”
The emotional link: Leadership and the role of implicit and explicit emotional contagion processes across multiple organizational levels (2015, background): “Mimicry of others’ behaviors tends to result in increased liking between interacting individuals (Guéguen & Martin, 2009; McIntosh, 2006) and closeness to the interaction partner (Stel & Vonk, 2010), consistent with the influence of behavioral mimicry in meeting evolutionary-driven needs of…”