Imitative Behavior

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 12- and 18-month-old infants follow gaze to spaces behind barriers. 
  • A self-agency bias in preschoolers\textquotesingle causal inferences. 
  • Adult language use and infant comprehension of English: associations with encoding and generalization across cues at 20 months. 
  • Adult-child interaction analysis: methodology and case application. 
  • Atypical network connectivity for imitation in autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches. 
  • Being mimicked increases prosocial behavior in 18-month-old infants. 
  • Bigger knows better: young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather than from peers. 
  • Contagion and differentiation in unethical behavior: the effect of one bad apple on the barrel. 
  • Copying results and copying actions in the process of social learning: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • EEG mu rhythm and imitation impairments in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Early predictors of communication development in young children with autism spectrum disorder: joint attention, imitation, and toy play. 
  • Early social, imitation, play, and language abilities of young non-autistic siblings of children with autism. 
  • Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally. 
  • Evaluating the effects of eating disorder memoirs on readers' eating attitudes and behaviors. 
  • Evidence for emulation in chimpanzees in social settings using the floating peanut task. 
  • Examining Recall Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood Using the Elicited Imitation Paradigm. 
  • Examining correlates of cooperation in autism: Imitation, joint attention, and understanding intentions. 
  • From imitation to implementation: How two- and three-year-old children learn to enforce social norms. 
  • Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): repertoire and use. 
  • Hemisphere functioning and motor imitation in autistic persons. 
  • How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material? 
  • I am too just like you: nonconscious mimicry as an automatic behavioral response to social exclusion. 
  • Imitation and social responsiveness in autistic children. 
  • Imitative learning of actions on objects by children, chimpanzees, and enculturated chimpanzees. 
  • Language facilitates event memory in early childhood: Child comprehension, adult-provided linguistic support and delayed recall at 16 months. 
  • Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective. 
  • Learning by imitation: a hierarchical approach. 
  • Left hemisphere specialization for facial and manual imitation. 
  • Looking past the model species: diversity in gaze-following skills across primates. 
  • Means to the goal of remembering: developmental changes in awareness of strategy use--performance relations. 
  • Media portrayals of suicide. 
  • Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces. 
  • Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning. 
  • Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. 
  • No evidence for contagious yawning in lemurs. 
  • Participation in Social Skills Therapy is Associated With Enhanced Recall Memory by Children With Down Syndrome: An Exploratory Study. 
  • Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers\textquotesingle transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults 
  • Peer contagion in interventions for children and adolescents: moving towards an understanding of the ecology and dynamics of change. 
  • Peer influence in children and adolescents: Crossing the bridge between developmental and intervention science 
  • Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. 
  • Processes of social learning in the tool use of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Rapid spine stabilization and synaptic enhancement at the onset of behavioural learning. 
  • Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture. 
  • Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes. 
  • Recall memory in children with Down syndrome and typically developing peers matched on developmental age. 
  • Relationships between maternal and adolescent weight-related behaviors and concerns: the role of perception. 
  • Self-monitoring without awareness: using mimicry as a nonconscious affiliation strategy. 
  • Self-recognition in autistic children. 
  • Social Mimicry Enhances Mu-Suppression During Action Observation. 
  • Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9 to 15 months of age. 
  • Social context effects in 2- and 4-year-olds’ selective versus faithful imitation. 
  • Studying primate learning in group contexts: Tests of social foraging, response to novelty, and cooperative problem solving. 
  • The NIMH Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH-ChEFS): a new set of children's facial emotion stimuli. 
  • The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. 
  • The chameleon effect: the perception-behavior link and social interaction. 
  • The effect of social cues on the eating behavior of obese and normal subjects. 
  • The forest, the trees, and the chameleon: context dependence and mimicry. 
  • The impact of first grade "Friendship Group" experiences on child social outcomes in the Fast Track Program 
  • The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation 
  • The role of conflict, feedback, and action comprehension in monitoring of action errors: Evidence for internal and external routes. 
  • The role of humans in the cognitive development of apes revisited. 
  • The schema-driven chameleon: how mimicry affects executive and self-regulatory resources. 
  • Three-dimensional arm movements at constant equi-affine speed. 
  • Understanding "prior intentions" enables two-year-olds to imitatively learn a complex task. 
  • Untrained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) fail to imitate novel actions. 
  • Use of social information in the problem solving of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Using nonconscious behavioral mimicry to create affiliation and rapport. 
  • Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry. 
  • You give me the chills: embodied reactions to inappropriate amounts of behavioral mimicry. 
  • Young children know that trying is not pretending: a test of the "behaving-as-if" construal of children's early concept of pretense. 
  • Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society