Where is the love? The social aspects of mimicry

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1528, 2009, Pages 2381-2389

  Van Baaren, Rick ^a   Janssen, Loes ^b   Chartrand, Tanya L ^c   Dijksterhuis, Ap ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Humans; Imitation; Social

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; MIMICRY; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 68549083407     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0057     Document Type: Article

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