Yawn contagion and empathy in homo sapiens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Norscia, Ivan ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; YAWNING; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FAMILY; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YAWNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82855168063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028472     Document Type: Article

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