TY - CHAP

T1 - Introduction to Automatic Imitation

AU - Genschow, Oliver

AU - Cracco, Emiel

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - People automatically imitate a variety of different behaviors. Interest in research on this phenomenon dates back to at least the eighteenth century. However, systematic studies into automatic imitation did not gain momentum until the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since then, researchers from various fields of psychology and neuroscience started investigating the underlying processes and consequences of automatic imitation. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the widespread occurrence of automatic imitation, exploring both what and how individuals imitate, offering a critical analysis of the research conducted over the past 25 years. In this introduction, we give a brief overview of each of the chapters captured in this book.

AB - People automatically imitate a variety of different behaviors. Interest in research on this phenomenon dates back to at least the eighteenth century. However, systematic studies into automatic imitation did not gain momentum until the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since then, researchers from various fields of psychology and neuroscience started investigating the underlying processes and consequences of automatic imitation. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the widespread occurrence of automatic imitation, exploring both what and how individuals imitate, offering a critical analysis of the research conducted over the past 25 years. In this introduction, we give a brief overview of each of the chapters captured in this book.

KW - Psychology

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-62634-0_1

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-62634-0_1

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-3-031-62633-3

SP - 1

EP - 7

BT - Automatic Imitation

A2 - Genschow, Oliver

A2 - Cracco, Emiel

PB - Springer Nature Switzerland AG

CY - Cham

ER -