Money and Mimicry: When Being Mimicked Makes People Feel Threatened

Research has shown that mimicry can bond people by fostering rapport and liking (Chartrand & van Baaren, 2009). Although these robustly positive effects might suggest that mimicry aids interpersonal interactions uniformly, we hypothesized that mimicry can also lead to adverse interpersonal outcomes by making people feel threatened. We tested this hypothesis by introducing mimicry into a context in which people were reminded of a vital and common component of modern life: money.

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