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Emotional Mimicry: Why and When We Mimic Emotions
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The goal of this review was to provide a brief overview of recent developments in the domain of emotional mimicry research. We argue that emotional signals are intrinsically meaningful within a social relationship, which is crucial for understanding the functionality and boundary conditions of emotional mimicry. On the basis of a review of the literature on facial mimicry of emotion displays, we conclude that the classic matched motor hypothesis does not hold for emotional mimicry. We alternatively propose a contextual view of emotional mimicry, which states that emotional mimicry depends on the social context: we only mimic emotional signals that are interpreted to promote affiliation goals and not necessarily what we see. As a further consequence, we are less likely to mimic strangers and we do not mimic people we do not like nor emotions that signal antagonism.
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- Authors
- Hess, U., & Fischer, A.
- Venue
- Social and Personality Psychology Compass
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 45-57
- ISSN
- 1751-9004 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2164777468
- Cited by
- 334
- References
- 70
- FWCI
- 23.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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