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

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2):142-142 (2005)
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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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