Automatic facial responses to near-threshold presented facial displays of emotion: Imitation or evaluation?

Neumann, Roland; Schulz, Stefan M.; Lozo, Ljubica; Alpers, Georg W.

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.12.009

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“…As expected with automatic responses, spontaneous facial mimicry occurs after minimal stimulus input, even upon brief presentations for expressions of joy or anger (Bornemann et al, 2012;. Interestingly, both motor and affective processes play a role in such spontaneous matching (for more see Moody et al, 2007;Neumann et al, 2014). In fact, the human and non-human animal literatures converge on the importance of recognising that pure motor-based and affect-based mimicry can be two interconnected but not necessarily coinciding phenomena.…”

Section: Spontaneous Mimicry Emotion Detection and Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 87%

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Palagi

Celeghin

Tamietto

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Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Section: Spontaneous Mimicry Emotion Detection and Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 87%

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Palagi

Celeghin

Tamietto

et al. 2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

123

143

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“…Further, spontaneous facial mimicry occurs after minimal stimulus input, even upon sub-threshold presentations for expressions of joy or anger (Dimberg et al 2000). Importantly, a match between the target and subject's expression can reflect mere motor similarity but also result from underlying match in valence (via emotion induction)-suggesting that both purely imitative and evaluative processes play a role (for more, see Moody et al 2007;Neumann et al 2014).…”

Section: Spontaneous Mimicry and Processing Of Facial Emotionmentioning

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The Mimicry Among Us: Intra- and Inter-Personal Mechanisms of Spontaneous Mimicry

Arnold

Winkielman

2019

J Nonverbal Behav

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This review explores spontaneous mimicry in the context of three questions. The first question concerns the role of spontaneous mimicry in processing conceptual information. The second question concerns the debate whether spontaneous mimicry is driven by simple associative processes or reflects higher-order processes such as goals, intentions, and social context. The third question addresses the implications of these debates for understanding atypical individuals and states. We review relevant literature and argue for a dynamic, context-sensitive role of spontaneous mimicry in social cognition and behavior. We highlight how the modulation of mimicry is often adaptive but also point out some cases of maladaptive modulations that impair an individuals' engagement in social life.

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“…However, this objection has to deal with the vast body of literature demonstrating exactly the same response pattern using pictures ( Dimberg et al, 2002 , Experiment 3; Lang and Bradley, 2007 ) or even words as stimuli ( Neumann et al, 2005 , 2014a ). Furthermore, Neumann et al (2014b) recently provided evidence for the assumption that mimicking behavior might also be an evaluative process rather than an imitation mechanism. Amongst other muscles the authors recorded spontaneous muscle activity over levator labii (i.e., muscle that wrinkles the nose producing an expression showing disgust) in response to facial expressions.…”

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Contrasting motivational orientation and evaluative coding accounts: on the need to differentiate the effectors of approach/avoidance responses

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Several emotion theorists suggest that valenced stimuli automatically trigger motivational orientations and thereby facilitate corresponding behavior. Positive stimuli were thought to activate approach motivational circuits which in turn primed approach-related behavioral tendencies whereas negative stimuli were supposed to activate avoidance motivational circuits so that avoidance-related behavioral tendencies were primed (motivational orientation account). However, recent research suggests that typically observed affective stimulus–response compatibility phenomena might be entirely explained in terms of theories accounting for mechanisms of general action control instead of assuming motivational orientations to mediate the effects (evaluative coding account). In what follows, we explore to what extent this notion is applicable. We present literature suggesting that evaluative coding mechanisms indeed influence a wide variety of affective stimulus–response compatibility phenomena. However, the evaluative coding account does not seem to be sufficient to explain affective S–R compatibility effects. Instead, several studies provide clear evidence in favor of the motivational orientation account that seems to operate independently of evaluative coding mechanisms. Implications for theoretical developments and future research designs are discussed.

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Automatic facial responses to near-threshold presented facial displays of emotion: Imitation or evaluation?

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

The Mimicry Among Us: Intra- and Inter-Personal Mechanisms of Spontaneous Mimicry

Contrasting motivational orientation and evaluative coding accounts: on the need to differentiate the effectors of approach/avoidance responses

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