Empathy is a beautiful thing: empathy predicts imitation only for attractive others.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

• Publication date

  2013-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/sjop.12060PMID 23786165
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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