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Goal: The proposed project concerns three interesting questions present in the social cognition literature: (1) Why and when do we mimic emotions?; (2) What is the impact of social context on mimicry of emotions?; and (3) What is the role of mimicry in non-verbal communication and understanding of body language? More specifically, we address two theoretically and empirically novel questions regarding facial mimicry. The first is whether under certain circumstances people are more likely to mimic negative emotions, and the second is whether the intensity of mimicry provides premise for predicting observer evaluations and action tendencies. In this project we aim to provide evidence for contextual view on emotional mimicry, which states that emotional mimicry is not only pure imitation of facial movements but also depends on the social context (Hess & Fischer, 2014). Methods: Facial EMG, trust games, laboratory experiment |
