When on diet! Be careful of your friends!
Dieters be careful. You might be watching out what you are eating but if your friend next to you is loading up a pound of calorie, it could just jeopardize your diet program. An international study has pointed out that watching someone loading up a snack can cause the viewer to replicate the behavior. It’s called the impact of mimicry. People automatically mimic other’s people’s eating behaviors.
In another study, it was found that people who had their posture, body angle, foot movements and verbal patterns mimicked by a salesperson rated a new sports drink more positively and drank more of it than people who were not copied.
This indicates that mimicry can have a potential difference in interpersonal persuasion, especially where the motivations and persuasive intent of the mimicker are transparent.
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