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Makes A Yawn Contagious
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Makes a Yawn Contagious
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No one has come up with a convincing explanation for why yawns are contagious, but chimpanzees have the same problem! ChaCha!
It is possible that yawns are contagious because at one time in evolutionary history, the yawn served to coordinate the social behavior of a group of animals. When one member of the group yawned to signal an event, all the other members of ...
Yawning is extremely contagious -- 55% of people who witness someone yawn will yawn within five minutes. If a visually impaired person hears a tape of someone yawning, he or she is likely to yawn as well. Face it, the likelihood of you maki...
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I personally think it comes with our capacity to mimic or mirror others. I see, and sometimes fight, similar things myself. When another at my table sips a drink, suddenly I'm thirsty. The others cross the left leg over the right and I have...
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Research suggests contagious yawning is linked to psychological traits, or possibly linked to empathy & affinity for social cues.
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