Summary:“There was nothing which could stop me!” Case report of an imitation suicide by a 14-yearold girlWe present the case of a 14-yearold girl who imitated the railway suicide of her boyfriend as a problem-solving strategy. Theories about the ...
Abstract. Since the first description of Down syndrome, imitation has been a reputed strength of persons with trisomy 21. The question is: How many elementary movements can persons with trisomy 21 imitate ...
Imitation by infants during the first 2 years of lifeAbstract. Imitation is an important cognitive and social cognitive ability in early childhood. In the last two decades infancy research has focused mainly on the study of deferred imitation as a ...
Es mehren sich Hinweise, dass Menschen über ein Spiegelneuronensystem verfügen, das für das Verständnis von Handlungen, für Imitation und für Empathie von großer Bedeutung sein könnte. Autistische Störungen gehen mit Beeinträchtigungen in der Imitation ...
Autistische Störungen (ASD) sind definiert durch Einschränkungen der sozialen Interaktion, Kommunikation und Sprache sowie durch stereotypes Verhalten und Sonderinteressen. Zusätzlich sind neuropsychologische Besonderheiten beschrieben worden. Methoden: ...
Summary: Numerous studies have considered the association between media reporting and portrayal of suicide and actual suicidal behavior or ideation. This review considered 42 studies that have examined the nonfiction media (newspapers, television, and ...
Summary: The association between the portrayal of suicide in fictional media and actual suicide has been debated since 1774, when it was asserted that Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther had led people to take their own lives. Since that time, a ...
There is strong evidence for the existence of the Werther effect, or the phenomenon of an observer copying suicidal behavior he or she has seen modelled in the media. As a consequence, a number of countries have developed guidelines that promote ...
Abstract. Evidence from twin, adoption, and family studies suggests that there is strong aggregation of suicidal behaviors in some families. By comparison, the role of social modeling through peers has yet to be convincingly established. This paper uses ...
Abstract. Facial expressions play a significant role in displaying feelings. A person’s facial expression automatically induces a similar emotional feeling in an observer; this phenomenon is known as emotional contagion. However, little is ...
The present studies investigated whether mimicry effects on empathizing depend on whether emotional expressions are seen as acted or real. In Study 1, participants saw a fragment from a reality “soap.” Half of them received an instruction to imitate ...
Mimicry and prosocial feelings are generally thought to be positively related. However, the conditions under which mimicry and liking are related largely remain unspecified. We advance this specification by examining the relationship between mimicry and ...
High-fidelity copying is critical to the acquisition of culture. However, young children’s high-fidelity imitation can result in overimitation, the copying of instrumentally irrelevant actions. We present a series of studies investigating whether adults ...