A visualization of the process of emotional contagion using physiological indexes: Development of the program that fosters facial mimicry in the First-Year Experience program.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13117
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Taisho University
• Principal Investigator: TANIDA SHIGEHITO 大正大学, 心理社会学部, 准教授 (50534583)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 共感性 / 情動伝染 / 可視化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to develop a training method to improve techniques for mimicking the facial expression of another person through visualizing the process of emotional contagion in interpersonal situations using the myoelectric potential of facial muscles and videos to let subjects analyze the visualized data. The result of this study suggests that subjects themselves tried to improve facial mimicry by using the visualization system and improved their mimicry techniques.

Free Research Field

社会心理学