The Mentality of Apes.

By W. Köhler. Nature, 2018

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The perception–behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior. (2001, background): “Although theorists have always treated the automatic imitation of postures, gestures and movements as a given (e.g., Allport, 1968; Köhler, 1927), early “evidence” was almost entirely anecdotal (see Bavelas et al.”
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