Goal contagion: perceiving is for pursuing.

The influence of social groups on goal contagion

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.07.009 q We thank Robert Arkin, Kentaro Fujita, Richard E. P Cognition Research Group for their helpful comments paper. Special thanks to Pablo Briñol and Travis Julia the experimental videos and Jen Morrison for serving 2b. The work reported in this paper is supported by a Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to the firs...

Automatic goal inference and contagion : On pursuing goals one perceives in other people ’ s behavior

The Mediational Roles of Law of Contagion and Threat Estimations in the Relation Between Disgust and Contamination-Based OCD Symptoms

Goal: The law of contagion is one of the sympathetic magic principals and is a cognitive distortion related with disgust. To explain how and with which mechanism, disgust can lead to contamination-OCD symptoms, the present study supposes that the emotion of disgust can activate the law of contagion which in turn may motivate threat estimations that finally, results in OCD symptoms. Method: Thi...

Rapid mimicry and emotional contagion in domestic dogs

Emotional contagion is a basic form of empathy that makes individuals able to experience others' emotions. In human and non-human primates, emotional contagion can be linked to facial mimicry, an automatic and fast response (less than 1 s) in which individuals involuntary mimic others' expressions. Here, we tested whether body (play bow, PBOW) and facial (relaxed open-mouth, ROM) rapid mimicry ...

The effect of psychological distance on automatic goal contagion

We investigated how psychological distance influences goal contagion (the extent to which people automatically adopt another person's goals). On the basis of construal-level theory, we predicted people would be more prone to goal contagion when primed with psychological distance (vs. closeness) because they would construe the other person's behavior in terms of its underlying goal. Alternativel...