Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children

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Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. (2009, background): “…typically developing preadolescents—in which the activation task was again the observation and imitation of facial emotional expressions—has recently demonstrated that activity in mirror neuron areas was positively correlated with interpersonal competence and empathic concern (Pfeifer et al. 2008).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “On one hand, individual differences in experience sharing sometimes are associated with adaptive social behaviors, such as cooperation, altruism (Eisenberg & Miller, 1987; Johnson, 1975), or some measures of social skills (Bailey, Henry, & Von Hippel, 2008; Pfeifer et al., 2008; Riggio, Tucker, & Co”
The Neurodevelopment of Empathy in Humans (2010, background): “One fMRI study directly examined the relationship between MNS activity and two distinct indicators of social functioning in typically developing 10-year-olds: empathy and interpersonal competence [Pfeifer et al., 2008].”
Psychobiology and molecular genetics of resilience (2009, positive): “Preliminary findings of greater activation in presumed mirror neuron and associated limbic areas during imitation of emotional faces in children with higher levels of empathy and interpersonal competence are promisin”