Chimpanzees Show a Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning: A Test of the Effect of Ontogeny and Emotional Closeness on Yawn Contagion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Madsen, Elainie Alenkær ^a   Persson, Tomas ^a   Sayehli, Susan ^a   Lenninger, Sara ^a   Sonesson, Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTAGIOUS YAWNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; FAMILIARITY; FEMALE; GAPE; INTIMACY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NOSE WIPING; ONTOGENY; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORY OF MIND; TREND STUDY; YAWNING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOSE; PAN TROGLODYTES; YAWNING;

EID: 84885692599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076266     Document Type: Article

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