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Catmur, Caroline; Heyes, Cecilia – Cognitive Science, 2013
Being imitated has a wide range of pro-social effects, but it is not clear how these effects are mediated. Naturalistic studies of the effects of being imitated have not established whether pro-social outcomes are due to the similarity and/or the contingency between the movements performed by the actor and those of the imitator. Similarity is…
Descriptors: Imitation, Contingency Management, Prosocial Behavior, Cognitive Science

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