In social interactions, own actions often trigger a particular response from another person. The sociomotor framework proposes that this consistent behavior of others can become incorporated into own action control. In line with this idea, recent studies have shown that own motor actions are facilitated if they are predictably being imitated rather than counterimitated by a social interaction partner. In the present study, we investigated whether this finding is influenced by the relationship between the interacting persons. To that end, we manipulated whether a participant was being imitated and counterimitated by an ingroup or by an outgroup member. In two experiments, we found a beneficial influence of being imitated irrespective of group membership. The results suggest that, while people incorporated their partner's behavior into own action control, this was not further qualified by group membership as a higher-order social variable. This finding points to a universal account of action control for actions with social action effects and actions with inanimate action effects alike.

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社会运动行为的预期：小组内和小组外互动的相似效果。

在社交互动中，自己的行为通常会触发另一个人的特定反应。社会运动框架建议可以将他人的这种一致行为纳入自己的行为控制中。与此想法相一致，最近的研究表明，如果可以预测地模仿自己的运动行为，而不是被社交互动伙伴所模仿，则会促进他们的运动行为。在本研究中，我们调查了这一发现是否受到交互人之间关系的影响。为此，我们操纵了参与者是由内部小组成员还是外部小组成员模仿和模仿。在两个实验中，我们发现无论组成员身份如何，被模仿都是有益的。结果表明，当人们合并了他们的伴侣时，的行为纳入自己的行动控制中，这并没有被团体成员进一步限定为高阶社会变量。这一发现表明，对于具有社会行为效果的行为和具有无生命行为效果的行为，行为控制的普遍描述。