The Modulation of Mimicry by Ethnic Group-Membership and Emotional Expressions.

Mimicry has been ascribed affiliative functions. In three experiments, we used a newly developed social-affective mimicry task (SAMT) to investigate mimicry´s modulation by emotional facial expressions (happy, angry) and ethnic group-membership (White in-group, Black out-group). Experiment 1 establi...

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Main Authors: Birgit Rauchbauer, Jasminka Majdandžić, Stefan Stieger, Claus Lamm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4996423?pdf=render