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Mirrors and the attribution of mental states

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Dorothy Cheney  and
Robert Seyfarth
Dorothy Cheney
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; cheney@cattell.psych.upenn.edu; Seyfarth@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Robert Seyfarth
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; cheney@cattell.psych.upenn.edu; Seyfarth@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 574 - 577
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