Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes

Abstract: The current experiment explored the influence of attitudes on facial reactions to emotional faces. The participants’ attitudes (positive, neutral, and negative) towards three types of characters were manipulated by written reports. Afterwards participants saw happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions of the respective characters while their facial muscular reactions (M. Corrugator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major) were recorded electromyografically. Results revealed facial mimicry reactions to happy and sad faces of positive characters, but less and even incongruent facial muscular reactions to happy and sad faces of negative characters. Overall, the results show that attitudes, formed in a few minutes, and only by reports and not by own experiences, can moderate automatic non-verbal social behavior, i.e. facial mimicry

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ; 44 (2008) 4 ; 1065-1072

Klassifikation
Psychologie

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2008
Urheber
Likowski, Katja U.
Mühlberger, Andreas
Seibt, Beate
Pauli, Paul
Weyers, Peter

DOI
10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.007
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-253748
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Likowski, Katja U.
  • Mühlberger, Andreas
  • Seibt, Beate
  • Pauli, Paul
  • Weyers, Peter

Entstanden

  • 2008

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