TY - JOUR A1 - Drimalla, Hanna A1 - Landwehr, Niels A1 - Hess, Ursula A1 - Dziobek, Isabel T1 - From face to face BT - the contribution of facial mimicry to cognitive and emotional empathy JF - Cognition and Emotion N2 - Despite advances in the conceptualisation of facial mimicry, its role in the processing of social information is a matter of debate. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between mimicry and cognitive and emotional empathy. To assess mimicry, facial electromyography was recorded for 70 participants while they completed the Multifaceted Empathy Test, which presents complex context-embedded emotional expressions. As predicted, inter-individual differences in emotional and cognitive empathy were associated with the level of facial mimicry. For positive emotions, the intensity of the mimicry response scaled with the level of state emotional empathy. Mimicry was stronger for the emotional empathy task compared to the cognitive empathy task. The specific empathy condition could be successfully detected from facial muscle activity at the level of single individuals using machine learning techniques. These results support the view that mimicry occurs depending on the social context as a tool to affiliate and it is involved in cognitive as well as emotional empathy. KW - Facial mimicry KW - empathy KW - emotional KW - cognitive KW - complex emotions Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1596068 SN - 0269-9931 SN - 1464-0600 VL - 33 IS - 8 SP - 1672 EP - 1686 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartmann, Matthias A1 - Fischer, Martin H. A1 - Mast, Fred Walter T1 - Sharing a mental number line across individuals? The role of body position and empathy in joint numerical cognition JF - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology N2 - A growing body of research shows that the human brain acts differently when performing a task together with another person than when performing the same task alone. In this study, we investigated the influence of a co-actor on numerical cognition using a joint random number generation (RNG) task. We found that participants generated relatively smaller numbers when they were located to the left (vs. right) of a co-actor (Experiment 1), as if the two individuals shared a mental number line and predominantly selected numbers corresponding to their relative body position. Moreover, the mere presence of another person on the left or right side or the processing of numbers from loudspeaker on the left or right side had no influence on the magnitude of generated numbers (Experiment 2), suggesting that a bias in RNG only emerged during interpersonal interactions. Interestingly, the effect of relative body position on RNG was driven by participants with high trait empathic concern towards others, pointing towards a mediating role of feelings of sympathy for joint compatibility effects. Finally, the spatial bias emerged only after the co-actors swapped their spatial position, suggesting that joint spatial representations are constructed only after the spatial reference frame became salient. In contrast to previous studies, our findings cannot be explained by action co-representation because the consecutive production of numbers does not involve conflict at the motor response level. Our results therefore suggest that spatial reference coding, rather than motor mirroring, can determine joint compatibility effects. Our results demonstrate how physical properties of interpersonal situations, such as the relative body position, shape seemingly abstract cognition. KW - Mental number line KW - random number generation KW - joint action KW - joint Simon effect KW - empathy KW - Interpersonal Reactivity Index Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818809254 SN - 1747-0218 SN - 1747-0226 VL - 72 IS - 7 SP - 1732 EP - 1740 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Knigge, Michel A1 - Krauskopf, Karsten A1 - Wagner, Simon T1 - Improving Socio-Emotional Competencies Using a Staged Video-Based Learning Program? BT - Results of Two Experimental Studies T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Relationship quality between teachers and their students is a critical aspect for well-being and effective learning in school. Accordingly, teacher training should promote competencies for creating and maintaining positive relationships in the classroom. The Helga Breuninger Foundation developed a video-based online training (Intus³) that intends to focus on student teachers' interpersonal competencies by reflecting on staged videos. Although this training is well-designed, there is only little empirical evidence in general and so far no experimental research investigating the effects of Intus³. Accordingly, we investigated whether this program is able to improve the capacities of student teachers' interpersonal competencies, affective well-being, and affective attitudes toward challenging students. We conducted two randomized experimental studies (n1 = 132, n2 = 242) within lectures in teacher education at the University of Potsdam, introducing the basics of inclusive education in two consecutive semesters. We compared groups first working with Intus³ to waiting control groups that wrote an expository text based on empirical research discussing the relevance of teacher–student relationships with a longitudinal design with four measurement points. Latent change models showed that prior work with Intus³ showed few effects but complex effects in comparison to the prior text work groups. In the larger and extended study 2, an increase of empathic concern was significant after the prior work with Intus³. The results will be discussed with the perspective of the potential of further development of online training courses for affective learning for teachers and teacher students. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 593 KW - affective learning KW - socio-emotional competencies KW - empathy KW - perspective taking KW - online training KW - digital Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-442868 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 593 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Knigge, Michel A1 - Krauskopf, Karsten A1 - Wagner, Simon T1 - Improving Socio-Emotional Competencies Using a Staged Video-Based Learning Program? BT - Results of Two Experimental Studies JF - Frontiers in Education N2 - Relationship quality between teachers and their students is a critical aspect for well-being and effective learning in school. Accordingly, teacher training should promote competencies for creating and maintaining positive relationships in the classroom. The Helga Breuninger Foundation developed a video-based online training (Intus³) that intends to focus on student teachers' interpersonal competencies by reflecting on staged videos. Although this training is well-designed, there is only little empirical evidence in general and so far no experimental research investigating the effects of Intus³. Accordingly, we investigated whether this program is able to improve the capacities of student teachers' interpersonal competencies, affective well-being, and affective attitudes toward challenging students. We conducted two randomized experimental studies (n1 = 132, n2 = 242) within lectures in teacher education at the University of Potsdam, introducing the basics of inclusive education in two consecutive semesters. We compared groups first working with Intus³ to waiting control groups that wrote an expository text based on empirical research discussing the relevance of teacher–student relationships with a longitudinal design with four measurement points. Latent change models showed that prior work with Intus³ showed few effects but complex effects in comparison to the prior text work groups. In the larger and extended study 2, an increase of empathic concern was significant after the prior work with Intus³. The results will be discussed with the perspective of the potential of further development of online training courses for affective learning for teachers and teacher students. KW - affective learning KW - socio-emotional competencies KW - empathy KW - perspective taking KW - online training KW - digital Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00142 SN - 2504-284X VL - 4 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER -