Paul and Rick are hiking. Paul stubs his foot on a hidden tree root. While Paul jumps around, Rick is also wincing in pain. Which phenomenon explains why Rick would wince when Paul is the one who got hurt?

a. emotional contamination
b. maladaptive motorization
c. contagious causality
d. motor mimicry


ANS: d

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