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"Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it": how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry.

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Title: "Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it": how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry.
Authors: Olszanowski, Michal (AUTHOR), Tołopiło, Aleksandra (AUTHOR)
Source: Cognition & Emotion. Jun2024, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p530-548. 19p.
Subjects: Imitative behavior, Sadness, Anger, Social attitudes, Societal reaction, Social context, Happiness
Abstract: Research indicates that emotional mimicry predominantly occurs in response to affiliative displays, such as happiness, while the mimicry of antagonistic displays, like anger, is seldom observed in social contexts. However, contextual factors, including the identity of the displayer (e.g. social similarity with the observer) and whose action triggered the emotional reaction (i.e. to whom display is directed), can modulate the meaning of the display. In two experiments, participants observed happiness, sadness, and anger expressed by individuals with similar or different social attitudes in response to actions from either a participant or another person. Results demonstrated that three manipulated factors – displayer social similarity, whose action caused an emotional display, and the type of emotional display – affected participants' perception of the display. In turn, mimicry was predominantly observed in response to happiness (Experiments 1 and 2), to a lesser extent to sadness (Experiment 1), and not to anger. Furthermore, participants mimicked individuals who were more socially similar (Experiment 1), while whose action caused an emotional reaction did not influence mimicry. The findings suggest that when the context mitigates the meaning of negative or antagonistic facial displays, it does not necessarily increase the inclination to mimic them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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