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Originally Posted by Javed
Therefore, the psychologists say, when mental processing slows and someone yawns, the tendency for other people to yawn contagiously might have evolved to promote group vigilance as a means of detecting danger.
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I find things like that so cool!!!
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Originally Posted by happy_terd
Didn't myth busters do an episode on this? I didn't watch it but I am curious about their experiments.
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They sure did -
the results were "plausible"
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I remember reading some years ago about a study on yawn contagion among apes. The details are a bit fuzzy but I think they established that there was contagion. The article mentioned a possible next step of the study, to find out whether trans-species contagion also occurred: if you see a chimp yawning, will it set you off (or vice versa)? I wonder if they ever got round to that study.
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The interesting thing to know is how far reaching is the effect? 10 feet? 20? Same room? What if you are only a foot away but in a different room?