title: Do I Mirror Your Mood if We're Peas in a Pod? Similarity and Liking in the Social Induction of Affect.
abstract: The present study investigates whether similarity in personality traits between a sender displaying affect and a receiver observing it influences the social induction of affect. We hypothesized that exposure to a similar sender would foster concordant affective reactions, whereas exposure to a dissimilar sender would foster discordant ones. To induce affect, we used short videos presenting a sender displaying happy versus sad emotional expressions. To manipulate personality similarity, we used a software program to generate brief bogus descriptions of the sender based on the receivers' prior responses to personality items. Our results demonstrated that dissimilarity led to decreased liking and, as a result, reduced the tendency to react with concordant affect to a happy sender's emotional expression. However, we found no evidence supporting the induction of discordant affective reactions.
authors.affiliation: a University of Lodz.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wróbel
authors.affiliation: b University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
authors.forename: Klara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Królewiak
authors.affiliation: c Jagiellonian University in Krakow.|d University of Bern.
authors.forename: Anna Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Czarna
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: affect contagion; liking; personality; similarity; socially induced affect