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Contagious yawning and laughing: Everyday imitation- and mirror-like behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Robert R. Provine
Robert R. Provine*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD21250
*
provine@umbc.edu
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Abstract:

Infectious yawning and laughing offer a convenient, noninvasive approach to the evolution, development, production, and control of imitation-like and mirror-like phenomena in normal, behaving humans.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 142
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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