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When does mimicry affect evaluative judgment?
Foroni, Francesco Semin, Gun R.
Foroni, Francesco
Semin, Gun R.
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Abstract
We investigated the effect of subliminally presented happy or angry faces on evaluative judgments when the facial muscles of participants were free to mimic or blocked. We hypothesized and showed that subliminally presented happy expressions lead to more positive judgments of cartoons compared to angry expressions only when facial muscles were not blocked. These results reveal the influence of socially driven embodied processes on affective judgments and have also potential implications for phenomena such as emotional contagion.
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embodied cognition, emotion contagion, emotion mimicry, judgment, facial expressions, facial muscles
Date
2011
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Journal article
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Emotion
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687-690
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School of Behavioural and Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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