Automatic mimicry reactions as related to differences in emotional empathy
(2002) In Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 43(5). p.433-443- Abstract
- The hypotheses were based on conceiving of automatic mimicking as involved in emotio¬nal empathy. Mimicry reactions (EMG) in high- and low-empathy subjects were studied when subjects were exposed to pictures of angry or happy faces. The degree of corre¬sponden¬ce between subjects’ facial EMG reactions and their self-reported feelings was compared. The comparisons were made at different stimulus exposure times in order to elicit reactions at different levels of information processing. The high-empathy subjects were found to have a higher degree of mimicking behavior than the low-empathy subjects at short exposure times (17 – 40 milliseconds) and they showed a higher correspondence between facial expressions and self-reported feelings.
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- author
- Sonnby-Borgström, Marianne LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Empathy, emotional contagion, facial expression, automatic reactions, microgenesis, unconscious processing
- in
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- volume
- 43
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 433 - 443
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- wos:000179710500009
- pmid:12500783
- scopus:0036884832
- ISSN
- 1467-9450
- DOI
- 10.1111/1467-9450.00312
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ed7900a5-31e9-410d-839d-67fbd82f61f5 (old id 758333)
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