Empathy modulates the rewarding effect of mimicry

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Neufeld, J ^a,b   Chakrabarti, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REWARD; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BIAS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; REWARD;

EID: 84974822402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27751     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Lakin, J. L., Jefferis, V. E., Cheng, C. M., & Chartrand, T. L. The chameleon effect as social glue: Evidence for The evolutionary significance of nonconscious mimicry. J. Nonverbal Behav. 27, 145-162 (2003
2. Dijksterhuis, A. Why we are social animals: The high road to imitation as social glue. Perspect. Imitation Neurosci. Soc. Sci. 2, 207-220 (2005
3. Stel, M., & Vonk, R. Mimicry in social interaction: Benefits for mimickers, mimickees, and their interaction. Br. J. Psychol. 101, 311-323 (2010
4. Chartrand, T. L., & Bargh, J. A. The chameleon effect: The perception-behavior link and social interaction. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 76, 893 (1999
5. Van Baaren, R. B., Holland, R. W., Kawakami, K., & Van Knippenberg, A. Mimicry and prosocial behavior. Psychol. Sci. 15, 71-74 (2004
6. Fischer-Lokou, J., Martin, A., Gueguen, N., & Lamy, L. Mimicry and Propagation of Prosocial Behavior in a Natural Setting 1. Psychol. Rep. 108, 599-605 (2011
7. Kulesza, W., Dolinski, D., Huisman, A., & Majewski, R. The echo effect: The power of verbal mimicry to influence prosocial behavior. J. Lang. Soc. Psychol. 0261927X13506906 (2013
8. Müller, B. C., Maaskant, A. J., Van Baaren, R. B., & Dijksterhuis, A. P. Prosocial consequences of imitation, 1, 2. Psychol. Rep. 110, 891-898 (2012
9. Van Swol, L. M. The effects of nonverbal mirroring on perceived persuasiveness, agreement with an imitator, and reciprocity in a group discussion. Commun. Res. 30, 461-480 (2003
10. Maddux, W. W., Mullen, E., & Galinsky, A. D. Chameleons bake bigger pies and take bigger pieces: Strategic behavioral mimicry facilitates negotiation outcomes. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 44, 461-468 (2008
11. Swaab, R. I., Maddux, W. W., & Sinaceur, M. Early words that work: When and how virtual linguistic mimicry facilitates negotiation outcomes. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 47, 616-621 (2011
12. Ashton-James, C., Van Baaren, R. B., Chartrand, T. L., Decety, J., & Karremans, J. Mimicry and me: The impact of mimicry on selfconstrual. Soc. Cogn. 25, 518-535 (2007
13. Van Baaren, R., Janssen, L., Chartrand, T. L., & Dijksterhuis, A. Where is The love?. The social aspects of mimicry. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 364, 2381-2389 (2009
14. Kühn, S., et al. Why do I like you when you behave like me?. Neural mechanisms mediating positive consequences of observing someone being imitated. Soc. Neurosci. 5, 384-392 (2010
15. Meltzoff, A. N. ?Like me?: a foundation for social cognition. Dev. Sci. 10, 126-134 (2007
16. Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 358, 491-500 (2003
17. Kulesza, W. M., et al. The face of The chameleon: The experience of facial mimicry for The mimicker and The mimickee. J. Soc. Psychol. 155, 590-604 (2015
18. Stel, M., Van Dijk, E., & Olivier, E. You want to know The truth?. Then don?t mimic! Psychol. Sci. 20, 693-699 (2009
19. Oberman, L. M., Winkielman, P., & Ramachandran, V. S. Face to face: Blocking facial mimicry can selectively impair recognition of emotional expressions. Soc. Neurosci. 2, 167-178 (2007
20. Stel, M., & Van Knippenberg, A. The role of facial mimicry in The recognition of affect. Psychol. Sci. 19, 984-985 (2008
21. Likowski, K. U., Mühlberger, A., Seibt, B., Pauli, P., & Weyers, P. Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 44, 1065-1072 (2008
22. McIntosh, D. N. Spontaneous facial mimicry, liking and emotional contagion. Pol. Psychol. Bull. 37, 31-42 (2006
23. Stel, M., et al. Effects of a priori liking on The elicitation of mimicry. Exp. Psychol. 57, 412-418 (2010
24. Sims, T. B., Van Reekum, C. M., Johnstone, T., & Chakrabarti, B. How reward modulates mimicry: EMG evidence of greater facial mimicry of more rewarding happy faces. Psychophysiology 49, 998-1004 (2012
25. Trilla Gros, I. T., Panasiti, M. S., & Chakrabarti, B. The plasticity of The mirror system: How reward learning modulates cortical motor simulation of others. Neuropsychologia 70, 255-262 (2015
26. Glaholt, M. G., Wu, M.-C., & Reingold, E. M. Predicting preference from fixations. PsychNology J. 7, 141-158 (2009
27. Krajbich, I., & Rangel, A. Multialternative drift-diffusion model predicts The relationship between visual fixations and choice in value-based decisions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108, 13852-13857 (2011
28. Maughan, L., Gutnikov, S., & Stevens, R. Like more, look more. Look more, like more: The evidence from eye-Tracking. J. Brand Manag. 14, 335-342 (2007
29. Shimojo, S., Simion, C., Shimojo, E., & Scheier, C. Gaze bias both reflects and influences preference. Nat. Neurosci. 6, 1317-1322 (2003
30. Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. The empathy quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 34, 163-175 (2004
31. Sonnby-Borgström, M. Automatic mimicry reactions as related to differences in emotional empathy. Scand. J. Psychol. 43, 433-443 (2002
32. Stel, M., Van Baaren, R. B., & Vonk, R. Effects of mimicking: Acting prosocially by being emotionally moved. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol. 38, 965-976 (2008
33. Austin, A. J., & Duka, T. Mechanisms of attention to conditioned stimuli predictive of a cigarette outcome. Behav. Brain Res. 232, 183-189 (2012
34. Kühn, S., et al. Neural correlates of emotional synchrony. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 6, 368-374 (2011
35. Lee, T.-W., Josephs, O., Dolan, R. J., & Critchley, H. D. Imitating expressions: emotion-specific neural substrates in facial mimicry. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 1, 122-135 (2006
36. Losin, E. A. R., Iacoboni, M., Martin, A., & Dapretto, M. Own-gender imitation activates The brain?s reward circuitry. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 7, 804-810 (2012
37. Maurer, R. E., & Tindall, J. H. Effect of postural congruence on client?s perception of counselor empathy. J. Couns. Psychol. 30, 158-163 (1983
38. Van Baaren, R. B., Holland, R. W., Steenaert, B., & Van Knippenberg, A. Mimicry for money: Behavioral consequences of imitation. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 39, 393-398 (2003
39. Sims, T. B., Neufeld, J., Johnstone, T., & Chakrabarti, B. Autistic traits modulate frontostriatal connectivity during processing of rewarding faces. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 9, 2010-2016 (2014
40. Haffey, A., Press, C., O'Connell, G., & Chakrabarti, B. Autistic traits modulate mimicry of social but not nonsocial rewards. Autism Res. 6, 614-620 (2013
41. Chevallier, C., Kohls, G., Troiani, V., Brodkin, E. S., & Schultz, R. T. The social motivation theory of autism. Trends Cogn Sci 16, 231-239 (2012
42. Vivanti, G., & Hamilton, A. The handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders. 4th ed. (eds Volkmar, F. R., Rogers, S. J., Paul, R., & Pelphrey, K. A.) Ch. 4, 278-301 (New York: Wiley, 2014
43. Dawson, G. Early behavioral intervention, brain plasticity, and The prevention of autism spectrum disorder. Dev. Psychopathol. 20, 775-803 (2008
44. Stel, M., Van den Heuvel, C., & Smeets, R. C. Facial feedback mechanisms in autistic spectrum disorders. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 38, 1250-1258 (2008
45. Yoon, K. L., & Zinbarg, R. E. Interpreting neutral faces as threatening is a default mode for socially anxious individuals. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 117, 680-685 (2008