Research Catalog

Title

Emotional mimicry in social context / edited by Ursula Hess, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Agneta H. Fischer, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Hess, Ursula, 1960-
• Fischer, Agneta, 1958-

Description

ix, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "In everyday life we actively react to the emotion expressions of others, responding by showing matching, or sometimes contrasting, expressions. Emotional mimicry has important social functions such as signalling affiliative intent and fostering rapport and is considered one of the cornerstones of successful interactions. This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of research into emotional mimicry and empathy and explores when, how and why emotional mimicry occurs. Focusing on recent developments in the field, the chapters cover a variety of approaches and research questions, such as the role of literature in empathy and emotional mimicry, the most important brain areas involved in the mimicry of emotions, the effects of specific psychopathologies on mimicry, why smiling may be a special case in mimicry, whether we can also mimic vocal emotional expressions, individual differences in mimicry and the role of social contexts in mimicry"--
• "Sociality is central to being human and it depends on our ability to understand others, but not just in the way that we might understand something physical, like how to pick an apple from a tree. In this chapter I draw together some threads of other chapters in the book, and develop the idea that human sociality is based on emotions and that it involves sharing pieces of mind. Empathy offers a clear example of emotion-based sharing of mind. As explained in this book's Chapter 9 by Walter and colleagues, it enables us to experience in our selves something of an emotion of another person. Singer et al. (2004) studied the phenomenon by monitoring the brains of respondents when they were themselves experiencing pain and when they were signalled that a loved one in another room was experiencing the same kind of pain. The anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex were activated in both cases. A piece of brain activation and a piece of mind were shared. De Vignemont and Singer's (2006) explain that empathy, of this kind, occurs when someone has an emotion that is similar to that of another person, when one sees or imagines the other person having that emotion, and when one knows that the other is the source of one's own emotion"--

Series Statement

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series

Uniform Title

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.

Subject

• Emotions
• Imitation
• Emotions > Social aspects
• Social interaction
• PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology
• Gefühl
• Mimik
• Interaktion
• Soziologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: why and how we mimic emotions Agneta Fischer and Ursula Hess; 1. On the sharing of mind Keith Oatley; 2. The role of mimicry in understanding the emotions of others Mariëlle Stel; 3. Revisiting the simulation of smiles model: the what, when, and why of mimicking smiles Paula M. Niedenthal, Sebastian Korb, Adrienne Wood and Magdalena Rychlowska; 4. The neuroscience of mimicry during social interactions Leo Schilbach; 5. The social dimension as antecedent and effect of emotional mimicry Ursula Hess, Isabell Hühnerl, Job van der Schalk and Agneta Fischer; 6. More than just a mirror: examining the cross-channel mimicry of emotional expressions Skyler Hawk and Agneta Fischer; 7. Emotional mimicry: underlying mechanisms and individual differences Marianne Sonnby-Borgström; 8. Mimicry, emotion, and social context: insights from typical and atypical humans, robots, and androids Piotr Winkielman, Liam C. Kavanagh and Evan Carr; 9. The neurological basis of empathy and mimicry Miriam Schuler, Sebastian Mohnke and Henrik Walter; 10. Conclusion: towards a better understanding of emotional mimicry Ursula Hess and Agneta Fischer.

Call Number

JFE 18-5144

ISBN

• 9781107064478
• 1107064473

LCCN

• 2015047196
• 40025968913

OCLC

925497473

Title

Emotional mimicry in social context / edited by Ursula Hess, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Agneta H. Fischer, Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Hess, Ursula, 1960- editor.

Fischer, Agneta, 1958- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40025968913

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5144