Intimate imitation: Automatic motor imitation in romantic relationships
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Yn: Cognition, Cyfrol 152, 07.2016, t. 108-113.
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T1 - Intimate imitation: Automatic motor imitation in romantic relationships
AU - Maister, Lara
AU - Tsakiris, Manos
N1 - Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/7
Y1 - 2016/7
N2 - Our relationships with romantic partners are often some of the closest and most important relationships that we experience in our adult lives. Interpersonal closeness in romantic relationships is characterised by an increased overlap between cognitive representations of oneself and one's partner. Importantly, this type of self-other overlap also occurs in the bodily domain, whereby we can represent another's embodied experiences in the same way as we represent our own. However, as yet this bodily self-other overlap has only been investigated in individuals unfamiliar to each other. Here, we investigate bodily self-other overlap between romantic partners, using automatic imitation as an example case of bodily overlap in the motor domain. We found that participants automatically imitated romantic partners significantly more than close others with whom they had a platonic relationship. Furthermore, imitation in these relationships was related to key aspects of relationship quality, as indicated by adult attachment style.
AB - Our relationships with romantic partners are often some of the closest and most important relationships that we experience in our adult lives. Interpersonal closeness in romantic relationships is characterised by an increased overlap between cognitive representations of oneself and one's partner. Importantly, this type of self-other overlap also occurs in the bodily domain, whereby we can represent another's embodied experiences in the same way as we represent our own. However, as yet this bodily self-other overlap has only been investigated in individuals unfamiliar to each other. Here, we investigate bodily self-other overlap between romantic partners, using automatic imitation as an example case of bodily overlap in the motor domain. We found that participants automatically imitated romantic partners significantly more than close others with whom they had a platonic relationship. Furthermore, imitation in these relationships was related to key aspects of relationship quality, as indicated by adult attachment style.
KW - Adult
KW - Cognition
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Imitative Behavior
KW - Interpersonal Relations
KW - Male
KW - Object Attachment
KW - Photic Stimulation
KW - Psychomotor Performance
KW - Self Concept
KW - Social Perception
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.018
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.018
M3 - Article
C2 - 27045464
VL - 152
SP - 108
EP - 113
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
SN - 0010-0277
ER -