Automatic Imitation

Publications

Overview articles and meta-analyses 

  • Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (in press). Automatic Imitation. London: Springer Nature. 
  • Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (in press). Introduction to automatic imitation. In Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (Eds.), Automatic Imitation. London: Springer Nature. 
  • Genschow, O., & Oomen D. (in press). Imitation as social influence. In R. Prislin (Ed.), The research handbook on social influence. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 
  • Cracco, E., & Brass, M. (2019). Reaction time indices of automatic imitation measure imitative response tendencies. Consciousness and Cognition, 68, 115-118. 
  • Cracco, E., Bardi, L., Desmet, C., Genschow, O., Rigoni, D., … Brass, M. (2018). Automatic imitation: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 144, 453–500. 


Modulation of imitative behavior 

  • Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (in press). Social modulation of imitative behavior. In Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (Eds.), Automatic Imitation. London: Springer Nature. 
  • Cracco, E., Genschow, O., & Brass, M. (in press). Covert and overt automatic imitation are correlated. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 
  • Oomen, D., & Genschow, O. (2024). Possibilities of imitation. Possibility Studies & Society, 27538699241252883. 
  • Cracco, E., Genschow, O., Liepelt, R., & Brass, M. (2023). Top-down modulation of motor priming by belief about animacy: A registered replication report. Experimental Psychology, 70, 355–365. 
  • Genschow, O., Pauels, E., Krugmann, K., & Winter, A. (2023). Group membership does not modulate goal-versus movement-based imitation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 827-837.
  • Cracco, E., Genschow, O., & Baess, P. (2022). Top-down social modulation of perception-action coupling, Acta Psychologica 222, 103481. 
  • Genschow, O., Westfal, M., Cracco, E., & Crusius, J. (2022). Group membership does not modulate automatic imitation. Psychological Research, 86, 780-791. 
  • Nevejans, M., & Cracco, E. (2022). Model expertise does not influence automatic imitation. Experimental Brain Research, 240, 1267-1277. 
  • Genschow, O., Cracco, E., Verbeke, P., Westfal, M., & Crusius, J. (2021). A direct test of the similarity assumption—Focusing on differences as compared with similarities decreases automatic imitation. Cognition, 215, 104824. 
  • De Souter, L., & Braem, S., Genschow, O., Brass, M., & Cracco, E. (2021). Social group membership does not modulate automatic imitation in a contrastive multi-agent paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 746-759. 
  • Westfal, M., Crusius, J., & Genschow, O. (2021). Belief in free will is not correlated with automatic imitation. Acta Psychologica, 219, 103374. 
  • Cracco, E., Clauwaert, A., Van den Broeck, Y., Van Damme, S., & Brass, M. (2019). Motor simulation is disturbed when experiencing pain. Pain, 160, 2743-2750. 
  • Genschow O., Schuler, J., Cracco, E., Wänke, M., & Brass, M. (2019). The effect of money priming on self-other focus: A registered report. Experimental Psychology, 66, 423-436. 
  • Cracco, E., Genschow, O., Radkova, I., & Brass, M. (2018). Automatic imitation of pro- and antisocial gestures: Is implicit social behavior censored? Cognition, 170, 179–189. 
  • Genschow, O., van Den Bossche, S., Cracco, E., Bardi, L., Rigoni, D., & Brass, M. (2017). Mimicry and automatic imitation are not correlated. PLoS ONE, 12, e0183784. 
  • Genschow, O., & Schindler, S. (2016). The influence of group membership on cross-contextual imitation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1257-1265. 


Imitation of multiple agents 

  • Cracco, E., Braem, S., & Brass, M. (2022). Observing conflicting actions elicits conflict adaptation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 493–505. 
  • Cracco, E., Van Isterdael, E., Genschow, O., & Brass, M. (2022). Concurrently observed actions are represented not as compound actions but as independent actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48, 1172–1185. 
  • Cracco, E., & Cooper, R. P. (2019). Automatic imitation of multiple agents: A computational model. Cognitive Psychology, 113, 101224. 
  • Cracco, E., Keysers, C., Clauwaert, A., & Brass, M. (2019). Representing multiple observed actions in the motor system. Cerebral Cortex, 29(8), 3631-3641. 
  • Cracco, E., & Brass, M. (2018). Motor simulation of multiple observed actions. Cognition, 180, 200-205. 
  • Cracco, E., & Brass, M. (2018). Automatic imitation of multiple agents: simultaneous or random representation?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 729-749. 
  • Cracco, E., De Coster, L., Andres, M., & Brass, M. (2016). Mirroring multiple agents: Motor resonance during action observation is modulated by the number of agents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1422-1427. 
  • Cracco, E., De Coster, L., Andres, M., & Brass, M. (2015). Motor simulation beyond the dyad: Automatic imitation of multiple actors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 1488-1501. 


The role of anticipative processes in imitative behavior 

  • Genschow, O., & Groß-Bölting, J. (2021). The role of attention in anticipated action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47, 323-330. 
  • Genschow O., Bardi, L., & Brass, M. (2018). Anticipating actions and corticospinal excitability: A pre-registered TMS experiment. Cortex, 106, 81-92. 
  • Genschow, O., Klomfar, S., d'Haene, I., & Brass, M. (2018). Mimicking and anticipating others' actions is linked to social information processing. PLOS ONE, 13, e0193743. 
  • Genschow, O., & Brass, M. (2015). The predictive chameleon: Evidence for anticipated social action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 265-268. 


Is imitation a goal- or movement-based phenomenon? 

  • Hansen, J., & Genschow, O. (2020). Psychological distance and imitation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14, e12564. 
  • Genschow, O., Hansen, J., Wänke, M., & Trope, Y. (2019). Psychological distance influences the degree of goal- versus movement-directed imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 1031-1048. 
  • Genschow, O., & Schindler, S. (2016). The influence of group membership on cross-contextual imitation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1257-1265. 
  • Genschow, O., & Florack, A. (2014). Attention on the source of influence reverses the 
  • impact of cross-contextual imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 904-907.
  • Genschow O., Florack, A., & Wänke M. (2013). The power of movement: Evidence for context-independent movement imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 14, 763-773. 


Consequences of imitation 

  • Kulesza, W., Chrobot, N., Dolinski, D., Muniak, P., Bińkowska, D., Grzyb, T., & Genschow O. (2022). Imagining is not observing: the role of simulation processes within the mimicry-liking expressway. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 46, 233-246. 
  • Genschow, O., & Alves, H. (2020). A third person perspective on mimicry: Imitating others reduces perceived dominance and power. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88, 103966.