The impact of model eyesight and social reward on automatic imitation in virtual reality.

• Tác giả: Emiel Cracco, Jan De Houwer, Maura Nevejans, Jan R Wiersema
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 737276

Tóm tắt

Motivational theories of imitation state that we imitate because this led to positive social consequences in the past. Because movement imitation typically only leads to these consequences when perceived by the imitated person, it should increase when the interaction partner sees the imitator. Current evidence for this hypothesis is mixed, potentially due to the low ecological validity in previous studies. We conducted two experiments (