Methodological problems in the study of contagious yawning

Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue , 2010, Pages 120-127

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTAGIOUS YAWNING; COUGHING; EMPATHY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MCNEMAR TEST; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST; WEAKNESS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; YAWNING; ANIMAL; IMITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH; YAWNING;

EID: 79953748338     PISSN: 16604431     EISSN: 16622804     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000307090     Document Type: Article

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