“…Previous studies have demonstrated that motor mimicry is an early automatic element involved in affective empathy (Iacoboni, ; Lamm, Decety, & Singer, ; Singer & Lamm, ; Sonnby‐Borgström, ; Sonnby‐Borgström, Jönsson, & Svensson, ; Varcin, Bailey, & Henry, ). Meanwhile, it has been found that observers' mood states, to a large extent, influence their mimicry (Kuhbandner, Pekrun, & Maier, ; Likowski et al, ). For instance, Kuhbandner et al () observed that the joint Simonlike effect was strongest after positive affect induction and absent after negative affect induction while participants were performing a Simon task together with another person, suggesting that positive affect increases and negative affect decreases the automatic representation of other individuals' actions.…”