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Cracco, Emiel, Bardi, Lara ORCID: 0000-0002-1678-647X, Desmet, Charlotte, Genschow, Oliver ORCID: 0000-0001-6322-4392, Rigoni, Davide, De Coster, Lize ORCID: 0000-0002-6476-8233, Radkova, Ina, Deschrijver, Eliane and Brass, Marcel (2018). Automatic Imitation: A Meta-Analysis. Psychol. Bull., 144 (5). S. 453 - 501. WASHINGTON: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. ISSN 1939-1455

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Abstract

Automatic imitation is the finding that movement execution is facilitated by compatible and impeded by incompatible observed movements. In the past 15 years, automatic imitation has been studied to understand the relation between perception and action in social interaction. Although research on this topic started in cognitive science, interest quickly spread to related disciplines such as social psychology, clinical psychology. and neuroscience. However, important theoretical questions have remained unanswered. Therefore, in the present meta-analysis, we evaluated seven key questions on automatic imitation. The results, based on 161 studies containing 226 experiments, revealed an overall effect size of g(z) = 0.95, 95% CI [0.88, 1.02]. Moderator analyses identified automatic imitation as a flexible, largely automatic process that is driven by movement and effector compatibility, but is also influenced by spatial compatibility. Automatic imitation was found to be stronger for forced choice tasks than for simple response tasks, for human agents than for nonhuman agents, and for goalless actions than for goal-directed actions. However, it was not modulated by more subtle factors such as animacy beliefs, motion profiles, or visual perspective. Finally, there was no evidence for a relation between automatic imitation and either empathy or autism. Among other things. these findings point toward actor-imitator similarity as a crucial modulator of automatic imitation and challenge the view that imitative tendencies are an indicator of social functioning. The current meta-analysis has important theoretical implications and sheds light on longstanding controversies in the literature on automatic imitation and related domains.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Cracco, Emiel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bardi, Lara UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-647X UNSPECIFIED Desmet, Charlotte UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Genschow, Oliver UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6322-4392 UNSPECIFIED Rigoni, Davide UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED De Coster, Lize UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6476-8233 UNSPECIFIED Radkova, Ina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Deschrijver, Eliane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Brass, Marcel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-187175
DOI:	10.1037/bul0000143
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychol. Bull.
Volume:	144
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 453 - 501
Date:	2018
Publisher:	AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	1939-1455
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ROBUST VARIANCE-ESTIMATION; SMALL-SAMPLE ADJUSTMENTS; HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM; MIRROR NEURONS; TOP-DOWN; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; MOVEMENT INTERFERENCE; MOTOR INTERFERENCE; ACTION-PERCEPTION; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Multiple languages Psychology; Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/18717