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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2006 1(1):3-4; doi:10.1093/scan/nsl011
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A landmark study finds that when we look at sad faces, the size of the pupil we look at influences the size of our own pupil

Ralph Adolphs

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
USA

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We often mirror other people's behaviors, and one philosophical and psychological line of theories (Carruthers and Smith, 1996; Lipps, 1907) has long proposed that doing so allows us also to mirror other people's minds. Phenomena such as emotional contagion, imitation and other kinds of mimicry have been argued to constitute ontogenetic and phylogenetic precursors from which empathy, simulation and other abilities emerge in adult humans whereby we gain knowledge about the feelings, intentions and thoughts of others (Meltzoff and Decety, 2003). Neurobiological and psychophysiological data provide examples supporting this idea (Blakemore . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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