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She more than he: gender bias supports the empathic nature of yawn contagion in Homo sapiens

Psychological, clinical and neurobiological findings endorse that empathic abilities are more developed in women than in men. Because there is growing evidence that yawn contagion is an empathy-based phenomenon, we expect that the female bias in the empathic abilities reflects on a gender skew in th...

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Autores principales: Norscia, Ivan, Demuru, Elisa, Palagi, Elisabetta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26998318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150459