Little evidence for a role of facial mimicry in the transmission of stress from parents to adolescent children

Abstract Empathic stress, the spontaneous reproduction of psychosocial stress by mere observation, has been shown to occur between strangers, romantic partners and in mother-child dyads. However, the mechanisms by which stress is transmitted have yet to be understood. We investigated whether facial...

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Main Authors: Jost Ulrich Blasberg, Philipp Kanske, Veronika Engert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-05-01
Series:Communications Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00260-3
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