Yawn contagion in humans and bonobos: Emotional affinity matters more than species

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Norscia, Ivan ^a   Demuru, Elisa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy; Cross species comparison; Emotional contagion; Homo sapiens; Pan paniscus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YAWNING;

EID: 84927802118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.519     Document Type: Article

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