mirror neurons

How body language helps us understand other people’s emotions

Social interaction is a complex phenomenon. When we want to know what our fellow human beings are feeling , we have various sources of information at our disposal. One major source is the human body and body language. By observing another person’s body language, we can infer not only what they are

On Mirror Neurons or Why it is Okay to be a Couch Potato

Have you ever wondered why, when you see someone stretch out and yawn, suddenly, you start to feel drowsy and feel the urge to do the same? Or how about the tendency of people to copy each other’s postures? In social psychology this phenomenon is called postural mirroring. All this mimicking is the