When someone panics, others can feel their anxiety. When others laugh, we find it easier to smile. Some of our emotions are not wholly owned by us, we take them from those who surround us. How does our brain process such complex social emotions? A glimpse of the answer has been provided by research of the Nencki Institute, currently carried out on the basis of the prestigious ERC grant, awarded to Dr. Ewelina Knapska.
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