Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker

Mimicry is generally associated with a positive perception of the mimicker. Our hypothesis stated that participants would become more honest in their responses to a survey administered by a mimicking interviewer. Students were invited to participate in a survey on their ecological behavior. During t...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:de62ab58e0ce43a0aa8a4308d6fba9042021-11-25T02:22:59ZMimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker10.21500/20112084.7012011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/de62ab58e0ce43a0aa8a4308d6fba9042013-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/701https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922Mimicry is generally associated with a positive perception of the mimicker. Our hypothesis stated that participants would become more honest in their responses to a survey administered by a mimicking interviewer. Students were invited to participate in a survey on their ecological behavior. During the first part of the survey, the ‘experimental confederate’ either mimicked their interlocutor or did not. It was found that participants declared less ecological behavior in their everyday life in the mimicry condition than in the non-mimicry condition.Nicolas GuéguenUniversidad de San BuenaventuraarticleImitaciónentrevistarespuestahonestidadPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2013)
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Nicolas Guéguen
Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker
description Mimicry is generally associated with a positive perception of the mimicker. Our hypothesis stated that participants would become more honest in their responses to a survey administered by a mimicking interviewer. Students were invited to participate in a survey on their ecological behavior. During the first part of the survey, the ‘experimental confederate’ either mimicked their interlocutor or did not. It was found that participants declared less ecological behavior in their everyday life in the mimicry condition than in the non-mimicry condition.
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title Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker
title_short Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker
title_full Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker
title_fullStr Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker
title_full_unstemmed Mimicry and honesty: people give more honest responses to their mimicker
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