Social Embodiment Effects

Social Embodiment Effects
Four types of embodiment effects have been reported in the social psychology
literatures: (1) perceived social stimuli produce bodily states; (2) perceiving
bodily states in others produces bodily mimicry in the self; (3) bodily states in
the self produce affective states; and (4) the compatibility of bodily and
cognitive states modulates performance effectiveness. We do not review the
literatures for these effects exhaustively. Insteadwe simply present examples to
illustrate the phenomena and motivate theoretical integration later.