@article{ref1,
title="Impression or expression? The influence of self-monitoring on the social modulation of motor contagion",
journal="Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)",
year="2018",
author="Roberts, James W. and Bennett, Simon J. and Hayes, Spencer J.",
volume="71",
number="4",
pages="850-858",
abstract="Social primes (pro-social, anti-social) can modulate mimicry behaviour. To date, these social modulation effects have been explained by the primed incentive to affiliate with another (Social Top-Down Response Modulation; STORM) and the primed active-self-concept leading to behaviour that is either consistent or inconsistent with the prime-construct (Active-Self account). The present study was designed to explore the explanatory power for each of these accounts, and thereby gain a greater understanding of how social modulation unfolds. To do this, we assessed social modulation of motor contagion in individuals high or low in self-monitoring. It was reasoned that high self-monitors would modulate mimicry according to the primed social incentive, whereas low self-monitors would modulate according to the primed active-self-concept. Participants were primed with a pro-social and anti-social cue in the first-person and third-person perspective. Next, they completed an interpersonal observation-execution task featuring the simultaneous observation and execution of arm movements that were either congruent or incongruent to each other. <br><br>RESULTS showed increased incongruent movement deviation (motor contagion) for the anti-social compared to the pro-social prime in the high self-monitors only. <br><br>FINDINGS support the STORM account of mimicry by showing observers modulate behaviour based on the social incentive underpinning an interpersonal exchange.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1747-0218",
doi="10.1080/17470218.2017.1307430",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1307430"
}