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      Five-Year-Olds’ Facial Mimicry Following Social Ostracism is Modulated by Attachment Security

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      Creators
      Hunnius, S.
      Schaik, J.E. van
      Date of Archiving
      2020
      Archive
      Radboud Data Repository
      DOI
      https://doi.org/10.34973/337s-xy15
      Publication type
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      Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2066/225205   https://hdl.handle.net/2066/225205
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      Audience(s)
      Life sciences
      Languages used
      English
      Key words
      facial mimicry; attachment security; social ostracism; peer interactions; child development; affiliation motivation
      Abstract
      Social ostracism triggers an increase in affiliative behaviours. One such behaviour is the rapid copying of others’ facial expressions, called facial mimicry (FM). Insofar, it remains unknown how individual differences in intrinsic affiliation motivation regulate responses to social ostracism during early development. We examined children’s FM following ostracism as modulated by individual differences in the affiliation motivation, expressed in their attachment tendencies. Resistant and avoidant tendencies arecharacterized by high and low affiliation motivation, and were hypothesized to lead to FM enhancement or suppression towards an ostracizing partner, respectively. Following an ostracism manipulation in which children played a virtual game (Cyberball) with an includer and an excluder peer, FM of the two peers’ happy and sad facial expressions was recorded with electromyography (EMG). Attachment was assessed via parent-report questionnaire. We found that 5-year-olds smiled to bothhappy and sad facial expressions of the excluder peer, while they showed no facial reactions for the includer peer. Neither resistant nor avoidant tendencies predicted FM to the excluder peer. Yet, securely attached children smiled towards the excluder peer, both when the peer displayed happy and sad facial expressions. In conclusion, these findings suggest a modulation of facial reactions following ostracism by early attachment.
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