Sympathy Crying: Insights from Infrared Thermal Imaging on a Female Sample.

Sympathy crying is an odd and complex mixture of physiological and emotional phenomena. Standard psychophysiological theories of emotion cannot attribute crying to a single subdivision of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and disagreement exists regarding the emotional origin of sympathy crying. Th...

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Main Authors: Stephanos Ioannou, Paul Morris, Samantha Terry, Marc Baker, Vittorio Gallese, Vasudevi Reddy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5055358?pdf=render