Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria; Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria; Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, 5 Avenue Pasteur, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 3, France.
Social & Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX26GG, UK.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2020 Sep;209:103132. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103132. Epub 2020 Jul 16.
This study investigated the effects of being mimicked on automatic imitation indices and social cohesion. 180 female participants were either interactively mimicked or anti-mimicked. In the mimicry condition, a confederate topographically aligned, during anti-mimicry, misaligned, their behavior to the participants. Being mimicked may evoke a sense of overlap between self and other generated movements. This so-created self-other overlap may generalize to other forms of imitation and social cohesion. Here, we investigated the effects of being mimicked on automatic imitation indices, using the Imitation-Inhibition Task. These indices are the baseline corrected facilitation and inhibition index, and the interference index which depicts the relation between facilitation and inhibition. In case of a generalized self-other overlap, we expect an increase in the facilitation, inhibition, and interference index, after the Mimicry as compared to the Anti-Mimicry condition. We furthermore predicted that the modulation of the indices would predict higher social cohesion ratings. Yet, our results showed a lower inhibition index after being mimicked, respectively an increase after Anti-Mimicry, with no effects on social cohesion ratings. This suggests that potential self-other overlap after being mimicked does not generalize to automatic imitation indices. Instead, being mimicked may have increased self-regulatory processes, and task performance.
本研究旨在探讨被模仿对自动模仿指标和社会凝聚力的影响。180 名女性参与者被分别进行互动模仿或非模仿互动。在模仿条件下，一名助手在空间上与参与者的行为保持一致，而在非模仿条件下，助手的行为与参与者不一致。被模仿可能会引起自我和他人产生的运动之间的重叠感。这种自我-他人的重叠可能会泛化到其他形式的模仿和社会凝聚力中。在这里，我们使用模仿抑制任务研究了被模仿对自动模仿指标的影响。这些指标是基线校正后的促进和抑制指数，以及干扰指数，它描述了促进和抑制之间的关系。如果存在普遍的自我-他人重叠，我们预计在模仿条件下，促进、抑制和干扰指数会比非模仿条件下增加。我们还预测，这些指标的调节将预测更高的社会凝聚力评分。然而，我们的结果显示，被模仿后抑制指数降低，而非模仿后抑制指数增加，而社会凝聚力评分没有变化。这表明，被模仿后的潜在自我-他人重叠不会泛化到自动模仿指标上。相反，被模仿可能会增加自我调节过程和任务表现。
