Investigating the Relationship between Stable Personality Characteristics and Automatic Imitation. [PDF]
Automatic imitation is a cornerstone of nonverbal communication that fosters rapport between interaction partners. Recent research has suggested that stable dimensions of personality are antecedents to automatic imitation, but the empirical evidence ...
Emily E Butler +2 more
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The relationship between inhibition of automatic imitation and personal cognitive styles [PDF]
Background Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of the inhibition of automatic imitation in social interactions. Additionally, cognitive traits are known to vary among individuals.
Yuki Nishimura +2 more
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Automatic imitation in dogs. [PDF]
After preliminary training to open a sliding door using their head and their paw, dogs were given a discrimination task in which they were rewarded with food for opening the door using the same method (head or paw) as demonstrated by their owner (compatible group), or for opening the door using the alternative method (incompatible group).
Range F, Huber L, Heyes C.
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The influence of prosocial priming on visual perspective taking and automatic imitation. [PDF]
Imitation and perspective taking are core features of non-verbal social interactions. We imitate one another to signal a desire to affiliate and consider others' points of view to better understand their perspective.
Rachel Newey +2 more
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Automatic imitation in budgerigars. [PDF]
A fully automated procedure, involving computer-controlled stimulus presentation and computer-recorded response measurement, was used for the first time to study imitation in non-human animals. After preliminary training to peck and step on a manipulandum, budgerigars were given a discrimination task in which they were rewarded with food for pecking ...
Mui R, Haselgrove M, Pearce J, Heyes C.
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How much imitation is there in a shadowing task? [PDF]
Phonetic imitation, also called phonetic convergence, is currently at the heart of numerous investigations since it can inform us on both the nature of lexical representations and the link between production and perception processes in spoken language ...
Sophie eDufour, Noel eNguyen
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Automatic imitation in a rich social context with virtual characters [PDF]
It has been well established that people respond faster when they perform an action that is congruent with an observed action than when they respond with an incongruent action. Here we propose a new method of using interactive Virtual Characters (VCs) to
Xueni ePan, Antonia eHamilton
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Status and Power Do Not Modulate Automatic Imitation of Intransitive Hand Movements. [PDF]
The tendency to mimic the behaviour of others is affected by a variety of social factors, and it has been argued that such "mirroring" is often unconsciously deployed as a means of increasing affiliation during interpersonal interactions.
Harry Farmer +4 more
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Copying you copying me: interpersonal motor co-ordination influences automatic imitation. [PDF]
Moving in a co-ordinated fashion with another individual changes our behaviour towards them; we tend to like them more, find them more attractive, and are more willing to co-operate with them. It is generally assumed that this effect on behaviour results
Daniel Joel Shaw +4 more
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Motor imagery during action observation modulates automatic imitation effects in rhythmical actions [PDF]
We have previously shown that passively observing a task-irrelevant rhythmical action can bias the cycle time of a subsequently executed rhythmical action.
Daniel Lloyd Eaves +3 more
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