Sentences with phrase «contagious yawning»

«To date, this is the first experimental evidence of contagious yawning in a non-mammalian species.»

It's the first good evidence for contagious yawning in a non-primate, says Gallup.

«Because big genetic studies have been done on schizophrenia and autism and other diseases, you can calculate someone's risks of developing those diseases from their genetic information and you can see if it's associated with contagious yawning,» she said.

My colleagues and I have found that silent videos of yawning people trigger contagious yawns in about 55 per cent of observers within five...

They argue that their figure of 33 per cent of adults showing contagious yawning compares well with humans since the chimps do not understand the purpose of the trial.

In research on people, those subjects that perform contagious yawning also recognise images of their own faces and are better at inferring what other people are thinking from their faces.

But the finding in budgies isn't just a cute novelty; because contagious yawning seems to be linked with empathetic processes, Gallup says this suggests that other social non-mammals may have basic forms of empathy.

«Contagious yawning by itself is not exactly empathy, but it hints at the tendency to mimic and synchronise with the bodies of others,» says Frans de Waal of Emory University in Georgia.

They saw that contagious yawning decreased among older people.

Many studies have suggested that empathy could explain contagious yawning.

Just when you thought contagious yawns in humans was weird, it's gotten even weirder: dogs catch our yawns, too!

Presented by Alicia Phillips Buttner and Rosemary Strasser, University of Nebraska at Omaha — ISAZ 2013 Over the last decade, there has been renewed interest in understanding the mechanisms that control contagious yawning.

Of course, it could also mean that tortoises are just a really bad choice for contagious yawning.

«It's just that it's absolutely not everything that's going on with contagious yawning.

Contagious yawning in humans has not yet been tested for biases, including social closeness [11] and ingroup - outgroup bias, but we would expect similar responses.

(Indeed, people who test for «contagious yawning» tend to be more empathic.)

• Contagious yawning: Can little kids «catch» other people's yawns?

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Evidence has been accumulating for several years that contagious yawning is driven by social cognition.

Now a research team led by James Anderson at the University of Stirling in the UK has shown that chimpanzees also perform «contagious yawning».

«Our data suggest that contagious yawning is a by - product of the ability to conceive of yourself and to use your experience to make inferences about comparable experiences and mental states in others,» Gallup told New Scientist.

The highly social birds are the latest animals to join the contagious yawning club.

This would mean that in order to have a contagious yawn, the animals involved would have to be capable of empathy, of fellow feeling.

«These data are highly reminiscent of the contagious yawning effects reported for human,» the authors write in Biology Letters.

This may mean that contagious yawning is not just the result of a fixed - action pattern triggered when you see someone else yawn.

«Depending on the species, contagious yawning may serve different purposes,» says Joly - Mascheroni.

For instance, a 2009 study by University of Zurich researchers showed that contagious yawning and laughing happened much less frequently with people who have schizophrenia.

Reflecting on her contagious yawning study, Cirulli mused that it would be interesting to study how genetics might influence a person's susceptibility to this behavior and how that might be connected to neurological conditions.

«In our study, there was a connection between contagious yawning and empathy, but it was explained by a stronger connection between contagious yawning and age,» said Elizabeth Cirulli, a geneticist at Duke University and an author of that paper.

Interestingly, there is growing evidence which shows that yawning in dogs can actually be a type of «contagious yawning» which is ultimately displaying empathy towards their owners.

A similar study with humans revealed that people who showed more empathetic qualities also tended to be more susceptible to contagious yawns, ultimately proving yawns to be more empathy - based and emotionally charged than pure physically induced — even for dogs.

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I learn that there was an international conference on yawning held in Paris in 2010 (love the logo; see at the right, above) and that there's a neural basis to contagious yawning, though I couldn't tell you what it is.