In Play We Trust. Rapid Facial Mimicry Predicts the Duration of Playful Interactions in Geladas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Mancini, Giada ^a,b   Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APE; ARTICLE; CERCOPITECOID; COORDINATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PLAY; PLESIOMORPHY; PREDICTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEROPITHECUS;

ANIMALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEROPITHECUS;

HOMO; PRIMATES; THEROPITHECUS GELADA;

EID: 84879035387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066481     Document Type: Article

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