Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes

Übernahme per Copy & Paste
Bibtex-Export
Endnote-Export

[Zeitschriftenartikel]

Likowski, Katja U.; Mühlberger, Andreas; Seibt, Beate; Pauli, Paul; Weyers, Peter

(482 KByte)

Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgenden Persistent Identifier (PID):http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-253748

Abstract	The current experiment explored the influence of attitudes on facial reactions to emotional faces. The participants’ attitudes (positive, neutral, and negative) towards three types of characters were manipulated by written reports. Afterwards participants saw happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions of the respective characters while their facial muscular reactions (M. Corrugator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major) were recorded electromyografically. Results revealed facial mimicry reactions to happy and sad faces of positive characters, but less and even incongruent facial muscular reactions to happy and sad faces of negative characters. Overall, the results show that attitudes, formed in a few minutes, and only by reports and not by own experiences, can moderate automatic non-verbal social behavior, i.e. facial mimicry.
Klassifikation	Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften; Sozialpsychologie
Freie Schlagwörter	Facial mimicry; Attitudes; Interpersonal relationships; Emotion
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2008
Seitenangabe	S. 1065-1072
Zeitschriftentitel	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (2008) 4
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.007
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)