Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences

Mauersberger, Heidi; Blaison, Christophe; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Kessler, Carolin–Louisa; Heß, Ursula

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“…This was also the case in Study 1. Across all participants, the effect for disgust mimicry was only marginally significant; further, the tendency to mimic disgust at all was positively related to neuroticism (Mauersberger et al, ). As such, it may not be surprising that reactions to this expression are not stable.…”

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“…This is the goal of the present research. Specifically, we reanalyzed data from two studies, one measuring emotional mimicry (Mauersberger, Blaison, Kafetsios, Kessler, & Hess, 2015) and one measuring affective reactions to pictorial social stimuli (Dufner et al, 2015), to assess both internal consistency and test-retest reliability for these measures. Before describing these studies in detail, some relevant issues regarding the concept of reliability in this context need to be discussed.…”

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Reliability of surface facial electromyography

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Data from two studies were used to estimate the reliability of facial EMG when used to index facial mimicry (Study 1) or affective reactions to pictorial stimuli (Study 2). Results for individual muscle sites varied between muscles and depending on data treatment. For difference scores, acceptable internal consistencies were found only for corrugator supercilii, and test-retest reliabilities were low. For contrast measures describing patterns of reactions to stimuli, such as high zygomaticus major combined with low corrugator supercilii, acceptable internal consistencies were found for facial reactions to smiling faces and positive affective reactions to affiliative images (Study 2). Facial reactions to negative emotions (Study 1) and facial reactions to power and somewhat less to achievement imagery (Study 2) showed unsatisfactory internal consistencies. For contrast measures, good temporal stability over 24 months (Study 1) and 15 months (Study 2), respectively, was obtained. In Study 1, the effect of method factors such as mode of presentation was more reliable than the emotion effect. Overall, people's facial reactions to affective stimuli seem to be influenced by a variety of factors other than the emotion-eliciting element per se, which resulted in biased internal consistency estimates. However, the influence of these factors in turn seemed to be stable over time.

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“…Examined within the dyad, spouses’ EC can be an indicator of higher SVP. In a recent study, individual differences in emotion mimicry were predictive of higher positive emotion and quality in naturally occurring dyadic interactions in social and personal relationships (Mauersberger, Blaison, Kafetsios, Kessler, & Hess, 2015). The attentional, emotional, and behavioral synchrony that susceptibility to EC promotes can have an even more adaptive function in the context of long-term marital relationships in conjunction with individual ER strategies.…”

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Emotion regulation and satisfaction in long-term marital relationships: The role of emotional contagion

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How couples regulate their emotions and how they converge emotionally with one another can critically affect relationship quality. We examined individual differences in two different classes of interaction-relevant processes—emotion regulation (ER) and emotional contagion (EC), the tendency to catch and converge with the emotions of others—in long-term marital relationships. Results from the actor–partner interdependence model analyses indicated that (a) actors’ and partners’ levels of cognitive reappraisal (but not suppression) and EC were independently associated with higher marital satisfaction and (b) both partners’ and actors’ levels of EC moderated associations between cognitive reappraisal (but not suppression) and marital satisfaction, such that this association significantly increased for lower levels of EC. EC at couple level had a direct effect on marital satisfaction and overrode individual-level effects of EC. These results indicate that both automatic (EC) and controlled (ER) processes have independent and conjoint effects on marital satisfaction in long-wed couples and, to an extent, coincide in attempts to synchronize couples’ emotional linkage. The results point to intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms in the regulation of emotion in longer term marital relationships.

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“…We suggest that behavioral interaction mechanisms explain friendship influence effects within formed relationships. One such behavioral mechanism connected to personality development is behavioral mimicry (Kurzius & Borkenau, 2015;Lakin & Chartrand, 2003;Mauersberger, Blaison, Kafetsios, Kessler, & Hess, 2015;Salazar Kämpf et al, 2018), referring to the tendency of social partners to imitate each other's behaviors. We suggest that by mimicking interaction partner's sociable behaviors, rather than more reclusive behaviors, dyadic partners increase in extraversion over time.…”

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The Co-development of Extraversion and Friendships: Bonding and Behavioral Mechanisms in Friendship Networks

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Empirical evidence suggests that people select friends whose extraversion is similar to their own (selection effects). However, little is known about whether friends influence extraversion development (influence effects) and about the interaction mechanisms that underlie friendship selection and influence effects. We examined whether selection and influence effects explain similarity in extraversion between friends in two independent samples. Similarity in extraversion predicted a higher likelihood of friendship selection across four years in Sample 1 (n = 1,698; Mage = 22.72, SD = 2.99; 49% female) and across a period of 16 weeks in Sample 2 (n = 131; Mage = 21.34, SD = 3.95; 77% female). Friends’ extraversion predicted increases in young adults’ extraversion in both samples. In Sample 2, we examined the interaction mechanisms underlying these selection and influence effects by combining event-based experience-sampling network dynamics with diary data on friendship network and extraversion dynamics. Findings showed that (a) similarity in extraversion predicted positive interaction quality changes and (b) positive interaction quality predicted friendship selection (bonding mechanism). In the same sample, (I) friends’ extraversion predicted friends’ sociable behavior changes, (II) friends’ sociable behavior predicted young adults’ sociable behavior changes, and (III) young adults’ sociable behavior predicted extraversion changes (behavioral mimicry mechanism). These findings provide unique insight into interaction mechanisms underlying longitudinal links between friendships and extraversion.

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Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences

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Reliability of surface facial electromyography

Reliability of surface facial electromyography

Emotion regulation and satisfaction in long-term marital relationships: The role of emotional contagion

The Co-development of Extraversion and Friendships: Bonding and Behavioral Mechanisms in Friendship Networks

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