The Antecedents and Consequences of Human Behavioral Mimicry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23348409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya L Chartrand (Duke University), Jessica L Lakin (Drew University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 285-308 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4308 • E-ISSN: 1545-2085 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143754 |
| PMID | 23020640 |
| OpenAlex | W2136179834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 118 |
| References cited | 179 |
Behavioral mimicry—the automatic imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements—is pervasive in human interactions. The current review focuses on two recent themes in the mimicry literature. First, an analysis of the moderators of mimicry uncovers the various motivational, social, emotional, and personality factors that lead to more or less mimicry of an interaction partner in a given situation. Second, a significant amount of recent research has identified important downstream consequences of mimicking or being mimicked by another person. These include not only increased prosociality between interactants, but also unexpected effects on the individual, such as cognitive processing style, attitudes, consumer preferences, self-regulatory ability, and academic performance. Behavioral mimicry is also placed in its broader context: a form of interpersonal coordination. It is compared to interactional synchrony and other social contagion effects, including verbal, goal, and emotional contagion and attitudinal convergence.
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Emotional contagion · Imitation · Interpersonal communication · Mimicry · Prosocial behavior · Social cognition · Action Observation and Synchronization · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology
Robotoid humanness
Synchronized behavior increases assessments of the formidability and cohesion of coalitions
Dynamically engaged smiling predicts cooperation above and beyond average smiling levels
Silent disco
Trajectories of Copy Behaviors in Infants With Elevated and Typical Likelihood for Autism
Religious and secular collective gatherings, perceived emotional synchrony and self-transcendent emotions
Garra dos líderes e capital psicológico dos liderados
Automatic imitation
Psychosocial effects of perceived emotional synchrony in collective gatherings
Social influence matters
Brief Supportive Psychotherapy
Components of Humor
Automaticity in social-cognitive processes
Empathy
Connecting minds and sharing emotions through mimicry
The Mythical Number Two
Nonverbal Communication
Synchrony in Psychotherapy
Conversational dynamics of joint attention and shared emotion predict outcomes in interpersonal influence situations
Examples in Open-Ended Survey Questions
Love and Imitation
Embodied Cognition in Communication Science
The Effects of Co-Viewers on the Viewing Experience
Facial Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli is Related to Empathic Concern, Empathic Distress, and Depressive Symptoms in Social Work Students
In the Arms of a Robot
Hiking the Hypothetical Trail in Two Directions
Inviting Robot Touch (By Design)
A Motivational Account of Convergence in Emotion Expressions Within Groups
Adopted Utility Calculus
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding
Why We Gather
Ability grouping predicts inequality, not achievement gains in Philippine schools
Social signalling as a framework for second-person neuroscience
A reverse hierarchy theory of social perception
Covert and overt automatic imitation are correlated
Moving in synchrony with an avatar – presenting a novel and unbiased body sway synchronization paradigm
The self-regulation of face touching - a preregistered experiment testing if-then plans as a means to promote Covid-19 prevention
The influence of persona and conversational task on social interactions with a LLM-controlled embodied conversational agent
Embodied self-other overlap in romantic love
Visible skin disease symptoms of another person reduce automatic imitation of their hand movements
Imitation of action-effects increases social affiliation
Emotional mimicry as social regulator
Putting a label on someone
The social contagion of work avoidance goals in school and its influence on student (dis)engagement
A Longitudinal Characterization of Typical Laughter Development in Mother–Child Interaction from 12 to 36 Months
The Too-Much-Mimicry Effect
Unmasking Deception
Effects of Social Context on Deliberate Facial Expressions
The Coordination-Rapport Link, Revisited
Do Children Laugh Like Their Parents? Conversational Laughter Mimicry Occurrence and Acoustic Alignment in Middle-Childhood
Time to Smile
Nonverbal Synchrony in Technology-Mediated Interviews
Justice and Nonverbal Communication in a Post-pandemic World
To Desire Closeness or to Feel It
A linguistic signaling model of social support exchange in online health communities
Are Relationally Transparent Leaders More Receptive to the Relational Transparency of Others? An Authentic Dialog Perspective
Teaching Business Students to Care
Some Evidence That Truth-Tellers Are More Attractive Than Liars
The affiliative consequences of same-race and cross-race mimicry
Empathic accuracy and interpersonal coordination
The intentional and spontaneous social motor synchrony of pre‐school autistic children
Dissociation of posture remapping and cognitive load in level-2 perspective-taking
How peer influence shapes value computation in moral decision-making
Challenges and opportunities for top-down modulation research in cognitive psychology
Dynamic emotional expressions do not modulate responses to gestures
Establishing conversational engagement and being effective
Laughing at funerals and frowning at weddings
Imitation in one's own presence
Being mimicked affects inhibitory mechanisms of imitation
Reactive Chameleon
Empathy by design? The affective politics of ‘Empathy Theatre’ in human–robot interaction
Understanding Customer Experience from the Unconscious Perspective
Why robot embodiment matters
Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups
The world looks better together
Affiliation motivates children’s prosocial behaviors
Alignment and empathy as viewpoint phenomena
Studying Nonverbal Synchrony in Couple Therapy—Observing Implicit Posture and Movement Synchrony
Exploring the relationship between behavior matching and interlocutor perceptions in L2 interaction
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement
Reaction time indices of automatic imitation measure imitative response tendencies
What are reaction time indices of automatic imitation measuring
Mortality salience increases language style matching and well-being
Designing for interpersonal motor synchronization
How to Capture Synchronization in Triads in One Single Measure
Facial Mimicry in Unstructured Dyadic Interactions
Spontaneous Interpersonal Coordination in Stepping and Autistic‐Like Traits 1
Is Emotional Commitment Through Inner Imitation Stronger When Emojis are Emphasized Separately Rather Than Inserted in Sentences
The Effects of Shared Opinions on Nonverbal Mimicry
Is the Inner Imitation–Emotional Empathy–Emotional Commitment Process Induced by Emojis Mainly Women’s Consciousness Process
A cross-cultural study of the elementary forms of religious life
New Perspectives on Emotional Contagion
Consumo de mídias sexualmente explícitas e sexo anal desprotegido em homens que fazem sexo com homens
I feel your pain”
Victims of Play Escalation Rank Below Aggressors in Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)
Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation
Religion as a barrier to the use of student loans for higher education
Gender differences in synchrony
The honest mirror
Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster
The Sage Handbook of Nonverbal Communication
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
Contexts of Accommodation
I Am Too Just Like You
Mimicry and Prosocial Behavior
Psychological Research on Joint Action
Rocking together
Self-efficacy
Looking To Understand
Gesture's Role in Speaking, Learning, and Creating Language
It's All in the Timing
The impact of social context on mimicry
Unconscious Facial Reactions to Emotional Facial Expressions
Cold and Lonely
The Significance of Posture in Communication Systems †
The Chameleon Effect as Social Glue
Mutual interpersonal postural constraints are involved in cooperative conversation.
Using Nonconscious Behavioral Mimicry to Create Affiliation and Rapport
Newborn Infants Imitate Adult Facial Gestures
Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons
The Mirror-Neuron System
Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination
Nonverbal synchrony in psychotherapy
Digital Chameleons
Coordinated movement and rapport in teacher-student interactions
Surface form and memory in question answering
A Stranger's Cold Shoulder Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Embodied Emotion Perception
Pianists duet better when they play with themselves
Psychosomatic Manifestations of Rapport in Psychotherapy
Self-efficacy
The Effects of Shared Opinions on Nonverbal Mimicry
When does mimicry affect evaluative judgment
Beyond smile dynamics
The substitutability of physical and social warmth in daily life
Taking your place or matching your face
Convergent and divergent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup
Synchrony and the social tuning of compassion
Evaluating the Dynamics of Unintended Interpersonal Coordination
The Impact of Guilt on Mimicry Behavior
The Mimicker is a Mirror of Myself
Mimicry and Propagation of Prosocial Behavior in a Natural Setting
Nonverbal Synchrony and Rapport
The impact of mimicry on sales – Evidence from field and lab experiments
Self-monitoring and mimicry of positive and negative social behaviors
Imitation of emotion
Gender differences in distributive negotiation
Mimicking disliked others
Effects of mimicking
Too late to coordinate
The consequences of mimicry for prosocials and proselfs
Subject Speech Rates as a Function of Interviewer Behaviour
Power moves
The Forest, the Trees, and the Chameleon
The motivational looking glass
Language style matching in writing
The schema-driven chameleon
Infants' responses to their mothers' expressions of joy and sadness
Automatic goal inferences
The object of my protection
Social cues for creativity
Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation
The influence of facial attractiveness on imitation
Synchronous activity boosts compliance with requests to aggress
The rhythm of joint action
Mimicry for money
The influence of social groups on goal contagion
Mind your mannerisms
Movement synchrony and perceived entitativity
Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes
Early words that work
The rhythm of rapport
Chameleons bake bigger pies and take bigger pieces
The stereotyper and the chameleon
Mimicry reduces racial prejudice
Moving memories
Who syncs? Social motives and interpersonal coordination
Strangers in sync
Behavioral cues to others’ motivation and goal pursuits
Sex Differences in Short-term Mate Preferences and Behavioral Mimicry
When Imitation Doesn’t Flatter
Culture and the self
Mood contagion
Stereotypes help people connect with others in the community
It takes two to mimic
Goal Contagion
I show how you feel
Self-Monitoring Without Awareness
Synchrony, pseudosynchrony, and dissynchrony
Social Tuning of Automatic Racial Attitudes
Thinking of you
Social Tuning of the Self
High-maintenance interaction
The chameleon effect
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆
Synchrony and Cooperation
Incidental Similarity Facilitates Behavioral Mimicry
Mimicry in social interaction
Automatic imitation
Linguistic Style Matching in Social Interaction
| Unique citing works | 118 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 108 |