Mimicry: Causes and consequences

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-116

  Duffy, Korrina A ^a   Chartrand, Tanya L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AUTISM; BEHAVIORAL MIMICRY; BORDERLINE STATE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL MIMICRY; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MIMICRY; HUMAN; MIMICRY; MOEBIUS SYNDROME; ORIENTATION; REVIEW; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VERBAL MIMICRY;

EID: 84925655220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.03.002     Document Type: Review

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