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SUBMITTER: Genschow O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942900 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Genschow Oliver O Westfal Mareike M Cracco Emiel E Crusius Jan J
Psychological research 20210609 3
Individuals have the automatic tendency to imitate each other. A key prediction of different theories explaining automatic imitation is that individuals imitate in-group members more strongly than out-group members. However, the empirical basis for this prediction is rather inconclusive. Only a few experiments have investigated the influence of group membership using classic automatic imitation paradigms and these experiments led to mixed results. To put the group membership prediction to a crit ...[more]