Visual Feedback Learning Essential For Imitating Facial Expressions
Friday, December 28, 2012 - 05:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Our ability to imitate facial expressions depends on learning and visual feedback, say psychologists. Marketing people knew that already. The 'chameleon effect' is commonly used in interpersonal negotiations because imitating another person's postures and expressions is an important social lubricant. How do we learn to imitate with accuracy when we can't see our own facial expressions and we can't feel the facial expressions of others? read more