Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes
By Katja U. Likowski, A. Mühlberger, Beate Seibt, Paul Pauli, P. Weyers. 2008
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Abstract The current experiment explored the influence of attitudes on facial reactions to emotional faces. The participants’ attitudes (positive, neutral, and negative) towards three types of characters were manipulated by written reports. Afterwards participants saw happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions of the respective characters while their facial muscular reactions ( M. Corrugator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major ) were recorded electromyografically. Results revealed facial mimicry reactions to happy and sad faces of positive characters, but less and even incongruent facial muscular reactions to happy and sad faces of negative characters. Overall, the results show that attitudes, formed in a few minutes, and only by reports and not by own experiences, can moderate automatic non-verbal social behavior, i.e. facial mimicry.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Social Constraints on the Direct Perception of Emotions and Intentions (2014, background): “body postures are less frequent for dehumanized out-group members (Likowski et al. 2008).”
- An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Communication (2013, background): “Yet we consider them to be sufficiently suggestive to at least shift the burden of proof to those who would claim that emotional expressions have no signalling function.”
- 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).”