Highlights•People mimic others' facial and emotional expressions, behavioral movements,
and verbal patterns.•Many social factors can facilitate or inhibit mimicry.•Mimicry has …

Various studies and researchers have proposed a link between contagious yawning and
empathy, yet the conceptual basis for the proposed connection is not clear and deserves …

It is well known that feelings of happiness transfer between individuals through mimicry
induced by vision and hearing. The evidence is inconclusive, however, as to whether …

Social chemosignaling is a part of human behavior, but how chemosignals transfer from one
individual to another is unknown. In turn, humans greet each other with handshakes, but the …

Compared to our understanding of neurocognitive processes involved producing mimicry,
the downstream consequences of being mimicked are less clear. A wide variety of positive …

This article examines sniffing in everyday conversations. It builds on prior conversation
analytic research on respiratory conduct, which has shown how things like inbreaths, sighs …

All primates, including humans, engage in self-face-touching at very high frequency. The
functional purpose or antecedents of this behaviour remain unclear. In this hybrid review, we …

Behavioral contagion is suggested to promote group coordination that may facilitate activity
transitions, increased vigilance, and state matching. Apart from contagious yawning …

The act of smelling is a fundamental perceptual process mediated by the evolutionary very
old olfactory system. Smells influence human behavior strongly related to survival, such as …

Olfactory perception provides a promising test case for enactivism, since smelling involves
actively sampling our surrounding environment by sniffing. Smelling deploys implicit skillful …