Imitation of action-effects increases social affiliation.

ABSTRACT: Imitating someone's actions influences social-affective evaluations and motor performance for the action model and the imitator alike. Both phenomena are explained by the similarity between the sensory and motor representations of the action. Importantly, however, theoretical accounts of action control hold that actions are represented in terms of their sensory effects, which encompass features of the movement but also features of an action's consequence in the outside world. This suggests that social-affective consequences of imitation should not be limited to situations in which the imitator copies the model's body movements. Rather, the present study tested whether copying the perceived action-effects of another person without imitating the eventual body movements increases the social-a

SUBMITTER: Dignath D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8289777 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature