Emotional Mimicry in Social Context by Ursula Hess

Emotional Mimicry in Social Context by Ursula Hess

In everyday life we actively react to the emotional 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.

Ursula Hess is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Agneta H. Fischer is a professor in the Department of Social Psychology at Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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ISBN 13	9781107064478
ISBN 10	1107064473
Title	Emotional Mimicry in Social Context
Author	Ursula Hess
Series	Studies In Emotion And Social Interaction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2016-03-11
Number of pages	244
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