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Facial mimicry in its social setting

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  • In interpersonal encounters, individuals often exhibit changes in their own facial expressions in response to emotional expressions of another person. Such changes are often called facial mimicry. While this tendency first appeared to be an automatic tendency of the perceiver to show the same emotional expression as the sender, evidence is now accumulating that situation, person, and relationship jointly determine whether and for which emotions such congruent facial behavior is shown. We review the evidence regarding the moderating influence ofIn interpersonal encounters, individuals often exhibit changes in their own facial expressions in response to emotional expressions of another person. Such changes are often called facial mimicry. While this tendency first appeared to be an automatic tendency of the perceiver to show the same emotional expression as the sender, evidence is now accumulating that situation, person, and relationship jointly determine whether and for which emotions such congruent facial behavior is shown. We review the evidence regarding the moderating influence of such factors on facial mimicry with a focus on understanding the meaning of facial responses to emotional expressions in a particular constellation. From this, we derive recommendations for a research agenda with a stronger focus on the most common forms of encounters, actual interactions with known others, and on assessing potential mediators of facial mimicry. We conclude that facial mimicry is modulated by many factors: attention deployment and sensitivity, detection of valence, emotional feelings, and social motivations. We posit that these are the more proximal causes of changes in facial mimicry due to changes in its social setting.show moreshow less

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Author: Beate Seibt, Andreas Mühlberger, Katja U. Likowski, Peter Weyers
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-151415
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Frontiers in Psychology
Year of Completion:2015
Volume:6
Issue:1122
Source:Frontiers in Psychology 6:1122 (2015). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01122
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01122
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Tag:EMG; behavior; competition; cooperation; cultural differences; emotional empathy; expressive displays; facial expression; gender differences; mimicry; mood; nonconscious mimicry; political leaders; responses; self-focused attention; speech anxiety
Release Date:2017/10/12
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung