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How movies mirror our mimicry

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Scriptwriters have internalized the unconscious social habits of everyday conversation.

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  1. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C. & Lee, L. Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics 76–87 (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.)

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Christian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Lillian Lee

Howie Giles

Lukas Bleichenbacher

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Ball, P. How movies mirror our mimicry. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.378

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