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Chapter 1 - On the sharing of mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

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Keith Oatley
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Ursula Hess  and
Agneta H. Fischer
Ursula Hess
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Agneta H. Fischer
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Emotional Mimicry in Social Context , pp. 7 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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