The effects of socioeconomic status and situational power on self-other processing in the automatic imitation task.

Previous work using physiological measures has shown that socioeconomic status and social power both influence the degree to which people are attuned to the actions of others. However, it is unclear whether such effects on brain activity translate into behaviourally significant outcomes. Here, we examined differences in automatic imitation between individuals varying in SES and power from the local community population.

Socioeconomic status and self-other processing: socioeconomic status predicts interference in the automatic imitation task.

High-status individuals have been found to be less attuned to the behaviour of others in the social environment, at least in the absence of any specific instructions to pay attention to them. Previous work using neural measures has shown that socioeconomic status (SES) influences the degree to which people are attuned to the actions of others. In particular, individuals from low-SES backgrounds were found to exhibit more mu-suppression, which has been suggested to reflect greater levels of sensorimotor resonance, compared to their high-SES counterparts.

Corrigendum: Differential Motor Facilitation During Action Observation in Followers and Leaders on Instagram.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.

Differential Motor Facilitation During Action Observation in Followers and Leaders on Instagram.

High power and high socioeconomic status individuals have been found to exhibit less motor system activity during observation of another individual's behavior. In the modern world, the use of online social networks for social interaction is increasing, and these social networks afford new forms of social status hierarchy. An important question is whether social status in an online setting affects social information processing in a way that resembles the known effects of real-world status on such processing.