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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 1065-1072Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.007
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facial mimicry; attitudes; interpersonal relationships; emotion
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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. Corrilgator supercilii and M. Zygomaticus major) were recorded electromyogratically. 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. (c) 2008 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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