Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation
Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2010.07.001
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Heyes, Cecilia
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作者：
Leighton, Jane;Bird, Geoffrey;Heyes, Cecilia
在自然主义的人际环境中，模仿或“自动模仿”会产生喜欢、归属、合作和其他积极的社会态度。本研究的目的是找出社会态度与模仿之间的关系是否是双向的：社会态度对模仿有直接而具体的影响吗？在一项乱序句子任务中，参与者被告知亲社会、中性或反社会的单词。然后使用刺激-反应相容性程序对它们进行模仿测试。在此过程中，参与者需要在呈现兼容（打开）或不兼容（闭合）的手部动作时执行预先指定的动作（例如张开手）。使用肌电图（EMC）收集反应时间数据，并通过从不相容试验的反应时间中减去相容试验的反应时间来计算拟态/自动模仿效应的大小。亲社会启动比反社会启动产生更大的自动模仿效应，表明模仿与社会态度之间的关系是双向的，社会态度对无意识或无意识的模仿行为倾向具有直接而特定的影响。 (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
In naturalistic interpersonal settings, mimicry or "automatic imitation" generates liking, affiliation, cooperation and other positive social attitudes. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the relationship between social attitudes and mimicry is bidirectional: Do social attitudes have a direct and specific effect on mimicry? Participants were primed with pro-social, neutral or anti-social words in a scrambled sentence task. They were then tested for mimicry using a stimulus-response compatibility procedure. In this procedure, participants were required to perform a pre-specified movement (e.g. opening their hand) on presentation of a compatible (open) or incompatible (close) hand movement. Reaction time data were collected using electromyography (EMC) and the magnitude of the mimicry/automatic imitation effect was calculated by subtracting reaction times on compatible trials from those on incompatible trials. Pro-social priming produced a larger automatic imitation effect than anti-social priming, indicating that the relationship between mimicry and social attitudes is bidirectional, and that social attitudes have a direct and specific effect on the tendency to imitate behavior without intention or conscious awareness. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.