Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language.

Although this finding was only marginally significant and should therefore be interpreted with caution, the correlation with PT is in line with (1) social psychology studies indicating that subjects who score high on the PT scale show high levels of automatic mimicry of postures, mannerisms and facial expressions during interpersonal communication (Chartrand and Bargh 1999 ); (2) the fMRI study of Gazzola et al.

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