Ingroup-outgroup bias in contagious yawning by chimpanzees supports link to empathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Campbell, Matthew W ^a   de Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; INGROUP; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; OUTGROUP; SOCIAL INTERACTION; YAWNING; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMITATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMPATHY; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YAWNING;

EID: 79953736041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018283     Document Type: Article

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