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De Souter, Laura, Braem, Senne, Genschow, Oliver ORCID: 0000-0001-6322-4392, Brass, Marcel and Cracco, Emiel (2021). Social group membership does not modulate automatic imitation in a contrastive multi-agent paradigm. Q. J. Exp. Psychol., 74 (4). S. 746 - 760. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1747-0226

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Abstract

A key prediction of motivational theories of automatic imitation is that people imitate in-group over out-group members. However, research on this topic has provided mixed results. Here, we investigate the possibility that social group modulations emerge only when people can directly compare in- and out-group. To this end, we conducted three experiments in which we measured automatic imitation of two simultaneously shown hands: one in-group and one out-group hand. Our general hypothesis was that the in-group hand would be imitated more than the out-group hand. However, even though both explicit and implicit manipulation checks showed that we succeeded in manipulating participants' feelings of group membership, we did not find support for the predicted influence of group membership on automatic imitation. In contrast to motivational theories, this suggests that group membership does not influence who we do or do not imitate, not even in a contrastive multi-agent paradigm.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code De Souter, Laura UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Braem, Senne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Genschow, Oliver UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6322-4392 UNSPECIFIED Brass, Marcel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Cracco, Emiel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-574890
DOI:	10.1177/1747021820986528
Journal or Publication Title:	Q. J. Exp. Psychol.
Volume:	74
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 746 - 760
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1747-0226
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 IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; MOTOR SIMULATION; MULTIPLE AGENTS; MIMICRY; SELF; IMPACT; BIAS Multiple languages Psychology, Biological; Physiology; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57489