Mimic resonance is a concept from applied communication psychology, based on the work of Dirk Eilert, that describes the ability to perceive, decode, and translate micro-expressions \u2013 fleeting, involuntary facial expressions that last only fractions of a second \u2013 into emotional messages. These micro-expressions, originally researched by Paul Ekman, are considered universal and cross-cultural: contempt, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, and anger all manifest in identical facial patterns, even when people try to hide these feelings. As a special topic in literature, mimic resonance opens up an asymmetrical power dynamic: a character who can read faces like others read a book moves through a social world full of unintentional confessions. In interrogation situations, negotiations, or everyday conversations, this character becomes the invisible superior. Particularly interesting is the flip side: what happens when someone knows they are being read \u2013 and trains their face to become a mask?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mimikresonanz ist ein Konzept aus der angewandten Kommunikationspsychologie, das auf den Arbeiten von Dirk Eilert basiert und die F\u00e4higkeit beschreibt, mimische Mikrosignale \u2013 fl\u00fcchtige, unwillk\u00fcrliche Gesichtsausdr\u00fccke, die nur Bruchteile einer Sekunde dauern \u2013 wahrzunehmen, zu decodieren und in emotionale Botschaften zu \u00fcbersetzen. Diese Mikroexpressionen, urspr\u00fcnglich von Paul Ekman erforscht, gelten als universell und kultur\u00fcbergreifend: Verachtung, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3973,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"fact-type":[],"class_list":["post-3974","fact-file","type-fact-file","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"ff_id":"","ff_wiki_type":"Sonderthema","ff_category":"topics","ff_subtype":"","ff_image_url":"","ff_parent_book":"","ff_appereance":[845],"fileimg":3973},"yoast_head":"\n