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Comment
. 2018 Dec 11;115(50):E11565.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1814429115. Epub 2018 Nov 28.

There is no evidence that pupil mimicry is a social phenomenon

Sebastiaan Mathôt  1 , Marnix Naber  2
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Comment

There is no evidence that pupil mimicry is a social phenomenon

Sebastiaan Mathôt et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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  • Pupil mimicry promotes trust through the theory-of-mind network.
    Prochazkova E, Prochazkova L, Giffin MR, Scholte HS, De Dreu CKW, Kret ME. Prochazkova E, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jul 31;115(31):E7265-E7274. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803916115. Epub 2018 Jul 16. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 30012623 Free PMC article.

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