Mom feels what her child feels: Thermal signatures of vicarious autonomic response while watching children in a stressful situation

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Manini, Barbara ^a   Cardone, Daniela ^a   Ebisch, Sjoerd J H ^a   Bafunno, Daniela ^a   Aureli, Tiziana ^a   Merla, Arcangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous nervous system; Emotion; Emotional sharing; IR thermal imaging; Mother child bond; Mother child synchrony; Vicarious responses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTUNEMENT; EMOTIONAL SHARING; EMPATHY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STRESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84933677704     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00299     Document Type: Article

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