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Chapter 7 - Emotional mimicry: underlying mechanisms and individual differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

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Marianne Sonnby-Borgström
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Ursula Hess  and
Agneta H. Fischer
Ursula Hess
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Emotional Mimicry in Social Context , pp. 125 - 161
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