Imitation of action-effects increases social affiliation
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Understanding action beyond imitation: reversed compatibility effects of action observation in imitation and joint action.
A robust finding in imitation literature is that people perform their actions more readily if they are congruent with the behavior of another person. These action congruency effects are typically explained by the idea that the observation of someone else acting automatically activates our motor system in a directly matching way. In the present study action congruency effects were investigated b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Research
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0340-0727,1430-2772
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-020-01378-1