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Humans are constantly unconsciously mimicking patterns of behavior off each other. This happens even with adults, but more so at early ages (presumably because
by strogonoff 5y ago
Humans are constantly unconsciously mimicking patterns of behavior off each other. This happens even with adults, but more so at early ages (presumably because there are fewer established patterns).
It doesn’t apply to long explicit patterns like a school play, but happens with pieces of behavior that are much shorter in a context-specific way: unless you observe a suitable situation, you wouldn’t know A unconsciously mimics B in behavior X. Additionally, the role of B in A’s life can make behavior mimicry strongly intrinsically motivated, which is a rare chance with a school play.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoThe notion that little kids can mimic this symptom set with coordinated precision and not look like a bunch of little kids poorly trying to do the same - this seems unrealistic.
- strogonoff 5y agoTry paying attention to how a teenage person unconsciously mimics small components of the behavior of a parent or a person they (again, possibly unconsciously) consider of importance. Things like a bad habit, such as smoking (including the finer mechanical details of the process); accent/[mis]pronunciations; usage of idiomatic words or phrases; motions when driving a car; etc. tend to look/sound extremely natural.
- imwillofficial 5y agoThe phenomenon known as mirroring is far more subtle than this.