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Greater mimicry of rewarding faces

Overview of attention for article published in Psychophysiology, May 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Title
Greater mimicry of rewarding faces
Published in
Psychophysiology, May 2012
DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01377.x
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Authors

Thomas B. Sims, Carien M. Van Reekum, Tom Johnstone, Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Abstract

Spontaneous mimicry is a marker of empathy. Conditions characterized by reduced spontaneous mimicry (e.g., autism) also display deficits in sensitivity to social rewards. We tested if spontaneous mimicry of socially rewarding stimuli (happy faces) depends on the reward value of stimuli in 32 typical participants. An evaluative conditioning paradigm was used to associate different reward values with neutral target faces. Subsequently, electromyographic activity over the Zygomaticus Major was measured whilst participants watched video clips of the faces making happy expressions. Higher Zygomaticus Major activity was found in response to happy faces conditioned with high reward versus low reward. Moreover, autistic traits in the general population modulated the extent of spontaneous mimicry of happy faces. This suggests a link between reward and spontaneous mimicry and provides a possible underlying mechanism for the reduced response to social rewards seen in autism.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
United States 3 2%
Australia 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Brazil 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Unknown 176 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 26%
Student > Master 28 15%
Researcher 19 10%
Student > Bachelor 16 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 7%
Other 37 19%
Unknown 28 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 113 59%
Neuroscience 12 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Social Sciences 7 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Other 13 7%
Unknown 34 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 September 2014.
All research outputs
#1,248,346
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Psychophysiology
#137
of 2,063 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,606
of 176,346 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychophysiology
#3
of 12 outputs
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