Does mimicry of others have an impact on how others like us? To see of it does Chartrand and Bargh carried out an experiment showing how likable you are, do we mimic automatically even strangers, and do high-perspective-takers exhibit the Chameleon effect more.
To see if people automatically mimic others, even strangers they had 78 participants who had a chat with insiders of the experiments. Some did more smiling, some face touching, and others foot wiggling. The result was that yes people will automatically mimic others, even strangers.
To see if mimicry increased liking they sat down the 78 participants in a chat room with the people that wiggled their foot more and touched their face more. The result of that one was that mimicry does in fact increase likability.
To see if high-perspective-takers exhibit the chameleon effect more they took 55 students and had them fill out a questionnaire, and empathy. They sat down opposite from them a person who did the face touching and foot wiggling. The result was that high-perspective-takers did 30% more touching of the face and 50% more foot wiggling then low-perspective -takers.
This is kinda like we hypnotise others to like us. If you need help with getting someone you should try mimicking them and see what happens.
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Hey! You know, i was thinking about this the other day actually!
ReplyDeleteSo you take someone that has a repuation of being a troublemaker, and they say that they want to be like a good kid, they want to have good grades and focus on the good things in their life instead of the negative.
So if they wanted to change they could use the "chamilion effect" to their advantage and mimic the person or people or even group of people that they would rather be like.
Just like hypnotising and mimicing them, your so right. Good article!