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Wednesday, January 2
January 2, 2008

Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth and Elke Zimmermann of the University of Veterinary Medicine studied orangutans and discovered that “the building blocks of positive emotional contagion and empathy that refer to rapid involuntary facial mimicry in humans evolved prior to humankind.” Or, in other words, “laughter is contagious” and very old. In […]

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