Contagious yawning: a reflection of empathy, mimicry, or contagion?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Yoon, Jennifer M D ^a   Tennie, Claudio ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canis familiaris; chameleon effect; contagion; dog; empathy; mimicry; primate; selective breeding; social cognition; yawning

Indexed keywords

CANID; COGNITION; MIMICRY; SELECTIVE BREEDING;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77950866780     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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