“…Interestingly, the conclusion that automatic imitation is not affected by group membership fits to several other recent findings illustrating the resilience of automatic imitation against social modulations. For example, recent research found difficulties in replicating correlations between automatic imitation and different interindividual differences including autism-like traits, narcissism, empathy, and perspective taking (Butler et al, 2015 ; Cracco, Bardi, et al, 2018 ; Galang & Obhi, 2020 ; Genschow et al, 2017 ; Müller et al, 2013 ; Newey et al, 2019 ). Likewise, Khemka et al ( 2020 ) could not replicate the finding that sitting in front of a mirror reduces automatic imitation (Spengler et al, 2010 ).…”