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A study published by Ulf Dimberg of the University of Uppsala, Finland has shown that our natural tendency is to mirror other human beings.
He discovered that when volunteers were asked to mirror certain facial expressions, the task was completed with effortless ease.
When on the other hand, the volunteers were asked to mismatch or provide the opposite expression to what they were seeing, for example, to frown when the other person was smiling, their muscles continued to try to produce a smile.
The ability to mirror, to walk in someone shoe's, a fantastic rapport tool; appears to be a natural ability, if we allow it to flow!
In a past entry, we discussed the existence of mirror neurons which tends to back up this new research.
Posted by Kevin Kelly at
May 5, 2006 11:12 AM