The American psychoanalyst and developmental psychologist Daniel Stern's idea of vitality
forms might suggest a new solution to explain how other minds are intensely expressed in …

Besides action vitality forms, facial expressions represent another fundamental social cue
which enables to infer the affective state of others. In the present study, we proposed the …

During social interactions, actions can be performed with different forms as a function of the
mood driving them. These action forms ie vitality forms (VFs), have a strong influence in …

The form of an action conveys important information about the agent performing it. Humans
may execute the same action in different ways, eg, vigorously, gently or rudely. This …

Tactile sensory information obtained from oneself or others may provide a calming effect and
has been shown to enhance participants' motor control. The extent to which these touch …

Sound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary relationship between phonemes and specific
perceptual attributes. Few studies have focused on the sound symbolic associations …

Humans have an extraordinary ability to communicate and read the properties of objects by
simply watching them being carried by someone else. This level of communicative skills and …

Nella trattazione di questo elaborato, si è visto come le emozioni possano essere ascritte a
schemi comportamentali, dotati di una corrispondenza motoria ed autonomica, tale da …

Participation in conversation is dynamic. People continuously negotiate their involvement
and interact the organization of participation into being using multiple communicative …

The observation of actions performed by others allows us to understand what they are doing
and why. Such ability is related to the existence of a set of neurons," mirror neurons", that …