The mimicker is a mirror of myself: Impact of mimicking on self-consciousness and social anxiety
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- mimicry, self-focus, self-consciousness, social anxiety
- Abstract
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In this experiment, a confederate was asked to mimic the posture and movements of participants who, subsequently, completed the French version (Pelletier & Vallerand, 1990) of the Scheier and Carver (1985) Self-consciousness Scale. Results showed that mimicry was associated with increased private and public self-consciousness and decreased social anxiety. Such data confirmed that mimicry is associated not only with changes in perception about a mimicker but also has an effect on self-perception of the person mimicked.
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- 2011-07-01
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- Volume 39, 2011, Issue 6
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