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- Title
The Too-Much-Mimicry Effect: Strong (vs. Subtle) Mimicry Impairs Liking and Trust in Distributive Negotiations.
- Authors
Wessler, Janet; Loschelder, David D.; Fendel, Johannes C.; Friese, Malte
- Abstract
We examined whether mimicking an interaction partner is universally advantageous or, provided the mimicry is particularly strong, whether it has detrimental impacts on interpersonal and negotiation outcomes. Participants interacted with a confederate who engaged in no, subtle, or strong mimicry and then negotiated. In laboratory Experiment 1 (N = 71) and Experiment 2 (N = 149), subtly (vs. not) mimicked participants liked the confederate more, while strongly (vs. subtly) mimicked participants liked and trusted less. In Experiment 2, strongly (vs. subtly) mimicked participants were less susceptible to the first-offer anchor. The online Experiment 3 (N = 180) corroborated the too-much-mimicry effect: When participants became aware of mimicry, it exerted detrimental effects on liking and trust irrespective of the experimental condition. Experiment 1 and Experiment 3 found no too-much-mimicry effect on anchoring susceptibility. These findings show that (a) sufficiently subtle mimicry positively influences interpersonal outcomes and (b) too much mimicry backfires.
- Subjects
T-test (Statistics); NEGOTIATION; LABORATORIES; SAMPLE size (Statistics); UNDERGRADUATES; STATISTICAL sampling; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NONVERBAL communication; EXPERIMENTAL design; IMITATIVE behavior; TRUST; COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH; ANALYSIS of variance; INTERPERSONAL relations; COMPARATIVE studies; DATA analysis software; CONFIDENCE intervals; FACIAL expression
- Publication
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2024, Vol 48, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
0191-5886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10919-023-00446-5