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Evidence for a two-step model of social group influence

Emiel Cracco (UGent) , Ulysses Bernardet, Robbe Sevenhant (UGent) , Nette Vandenhouwe, Fran Copman, Wouter Durnez (UGent) , Klaas Bombeke (UGent) and Marcel Brass (UGent)
(2022) ISCIENCE. 25(9).
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Social group influence plays an important role in societally relevant phenomena such as rioting and mass panic. One way through whit' - groups influence individuals is by directing their gaze. Evidence that gaze following increases with group size has been explained in terms of strategic processes. Here, we tested the role of reflexive processes. In an ecologically valid virtual reality task, we found that participants were more likely to follow the group's gaze when more people looked, even though they knew the group provided no relevant information. Interestingly, participants also sometimes changed their mind after starting to follow the gaze of the group, indicating that automatic imitation can be over-ruled by strategic processes. This suggests that social group influence is best explained by a two-step model in which bottom-up imitative processes first elicit a reflexive tendency to imitate, before top-down strategic processes determine whether to execute or inhibit this reflex.
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BYSTANDER INTERVENTION, AUTOMATIC IMITATION, VISUAL-ATTENTION, PERCEPTION, CROWDS, INTENTION, GESTURES, SIZE

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Cracco, Emiel, et al. “Evidence for a Two-Step Model of Social Group Influence.” ISCIENCE, vol. 25, no. 9, 2022, doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104891.
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Cracco, E., Bernardet, U., Sevenhant, R., Vandenhouwe, N., Copman, F., Durnez, W., … Brass, M. (2022). Evidence for a two-step model of social group influence. ISCIENCE, 25(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104891
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Cracco, Emiel, Ulysses Bernardet, Robbe Sevenhant, Nette Vandenhouwe, Fran Copman, Wouter Durnez, Klaas Bombeke, and Marcel Brass. 2022. “Evidence for a Two-Step Model of Social Group Influence.” ISCIENCE 25 (9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104891.
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Cracco, Emiel, Ulysses Bernardet, Robbe Sevenhant, Nette Vandenhouwe, Fran Copman, Wouter Durnez, Klaas Bombeke, and Marcel Brass. 2022. “Evidence for a Two-Step Model of Social Group Influence.” ISCIENCE 25 (9). doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104891.
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Cracco E, Bernardet U, Sevenhant R, Vandenhouwe N, Copman F, Durnez W, et al. Evidence for a two-step model of social group influence. ISCIENCE. 2022;25(9).
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E. Cracco et al., “Evidence for a two-step model of social group influence,” ISCIENCE, vol. 25, no. 9, 2022.
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