The Face of the Chameleon: The Experience of Facial Mimicry for the Mimicker and the Mimickee

Kulesza, Wojciech; Cisłak, Aleksandra; Vallacher, Robin R.; Nowak, Andrzej; Czekiel, Martyna; Bedyńska, Sylwia

doi:10.1080/00224545.2015.1032195

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“…An effect of mimicry on gaze has been hypothesised by Kulesza et al . 17 . Further, the results are in line with former behavioural and neuroimaging studies showing that being mimicked can lead to increased feeling of closeness, prosocial behaviour and linking 3 5 12 and increased activation in brain regions involved in processing rewards 14 34 35 36 .…”

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Empathy Modulates the Rewarding Effect of Mimicry

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Chakrabarti

2016

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We tend to like those who mimic us. In this study we formally test if mimicry changes the reward value of the mimicker, using gaze bias as a proxy for reward. Previous research has demonstrated that people show gaze bias towards more rewarding targets, suggesting that gaze bias can be considered a proxy for relative reward value. Forty adults participated in a conditioning task, where they were mimicked by one face and ‘anti-mimicked’ by another. Subsequently, they were found to show gaze-bias towards faces that mimicked them compared to those that did not, in a preferential looking task. The strength of this effect correlated positively with individual levels of trait empathy. In a separate, similar task, these participants showed a gaze bias for faces paired with high vs low monetary rewards, thus validating the use of gaze bias as a proxy for learnt reward. Together, these results demonstrate that mimicry changes the reward value of social stimuli, and empathy influences the extent of this change. This can potentially inform conditions marked by deficits in forming social bonds, such as Autism.

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“…It is worth noting however, that the benefits of mimicry on social cognition is context dependent. In some contexts, intentional mimicry can impair emotion recognition 17 or distinction of true from faked emotions 18 , while in others, being able to spontaneously mimic can enhance emotion recognition 19 , especially in women 20 .…”

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Empathy Modulates the Rewarding Effect of Mimicry

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2016

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“…W modelu "4Steps Re:Start" pracę rozpoczyna się od budowy kontaktu z klien tem. Obejmuje on komunikację odzwierciedlającą na poziomie werbalnym i niewerbalnym (Chartrand i Bragh, 1999;Lakin i in., 2003;Kulesza i in., 2015Kulesza i Kot, 2016;Doliński i in., 2013). Celem jest stworzenie bezpiecznych warunków do odkrywania mapy przekonań, założeń klienta na temat doświadczonej straty lub porażki.…”

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„4 Steps Re:Start” – zintegrowany model przejścia od utknięcia w poczuciu straty do akceptacji i rozwoju nowych kierunków w życiu i pracy

Turkowski¹,

Dąbrówka²

2018

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"4 Steps Re:Start"-zintegrowany model przejścia od utknięcia w poczuciu straty do akceptacji i rozwoju nowych kierunków w życiu i pracy Abstrakt "4 Steps Re:Start" to model pracy ze stratą do zastosowania/stosowany w coa chingu i psychoterapii. 4 kluczowe etapy modelu to: (1) praca z myślami i prze konaniami, (2) nadawanie sensu doświadczeniom i formułowanie kluczowego przesłania, (3) punkt zwrotny-przejście od przetrwania do wzrostu oraz (4) etap integracji życiowego doświadczenia. W artykule przedstawiono założenia teoretyczne, opisy przypadków oraz wskazano granicę między wykorzystaniem modelu w coachingu i psychoterapii.

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“…Mimicry of emotional expressions is done automatically in human-to-human communication and plays an important role in achieving affective communication [27][28][29] . In addition, in human-to-human communication, the mimicry of facial emotional expressions can promote the liking of the interaction partner 30 . Specifically, the mimicry of a positive expression is a robust response in people 26 .…”

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Achieving affective human–virtual agent communication by enabling virtual agents to imitate positive expressions

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Affective communication, communicating with emotion, during face-to-face communication is critical for social interaction. Advances in artificial intelligence have made it essential to develop affective human-virtual agent communication. A person's belief during human-virtual agent interaction that the agent is a computer program affects social-cognitive processes. Whether this belief interferes with affective communication is an open question. We hypothesized that the imitation of a positive emotional expression by a virtual agent induces a positive emotion, regardless of the belief. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an fMRI study with 39 healthy volunteers, who were made to believe that a virtual agent was either a person or a computer. They were instructed to smile, and immediately afterwards, the virtual agent displayed a positive, negative, or neutral expression. The participants reported a positive emotion only when their smile was imitated by the agent's positive expression regardless of their belief. This imitation activated the participants' medial prefrontal cortex and precuneus, which are involved in anthropomorphism and contingency, respectively. These results suggest that a positive congruent response by a virtual agent can overcome the effect of believing that the agent is a computer program and thus contribute to achieving affective human-virtual agent communication. Communicating with emotion, i.e., affective communication, plays an important role in inducing empathy and enhancing human bonding 1-3. With advances in artificial intelligence, virtual agents are starting to play an active role in various fields such as information presentation, sales, training, education, and healthcare 4-10. To help induce a positive emotion and thereby enhance social bonding in human-virtual agent interaction, affective communication between people and virtual agents has become important 11. To achieve the affective communication between people and virtual agents, one of the important issues is a person's belief. A person's belief during human-virtual agent interaction that the agent is a computer program, not a human agent, affects social-cognitive processes 12,13. For example, Caruana et al. reported that subjective ratings of an agent as pleasant and cooperative was lower and saccadic reaction time was longer during a joint attention task in the virtual agent condition than those in the human (virtual avatar) condition, with these conditions being regulated by agency manipulation 13. Thus, the person's belief about the agent, "agency belief," is an important aspect of affective communication with virtual agents. As a means to induce a positive emotion in a person interacting with a virtual agent controlled by a computer program, several researchers have proposed having virtual agents imitate human behavior 14-17. Mimicry (automatic imitation 18) of the human partner's behaviors is known to elicit positive emotions in human communication 19. This means that it might be useful to find ways to suppress the effe...

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The Face of the Chameleon: The Experience of Facial Mimicry for the Mimicker and the Mimickee

Cited by 34 publications

References 62 publications

Empathy Modulates the Rewarding Effect of Mimicry

Empathy Modulates the Rewarding Effect of Mimicry

„4 Steps Re:Start” – zintegrowany model przejścia od utknięcia w poczuciu straty do akceptacji i rozwoju nowych kierunków w życiu i pracy

Achieving affective human–virtual agent communication by enabling virtual agents to imitate positive expressions

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