Bullying behaviour, empathy and imitation: An attempted synthesis

Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 323-340

  Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Woods, Sarah N ^a   Kaouri, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489808.021     Document Type: Chapter

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