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Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes

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

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 expressio... view more

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.... view less

Classification
Social Psychology
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods

Free Keywords
Facial mimicry; Attitudes; Interpersonal relationships; Emotion

Document language
English

Publication Year
2008

Page/Pages
p. 1065-1072

Journal
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (2008) 4

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.007

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

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PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)


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