One of the Mysteries : Contagious Yawning
Posted on July 30, 2003 at 6:59 am | No Comments
Ok, there are three things I’d like to know…
1. Why is yawning contagious?
2. How come late-night pizza leads to vivid, flat-out insane dreams? and…
3. Why does entering large retail stores sometimes trigger trips to the bathroom?
I’m not quite curious enough to google those up, but apparantly some researchers at the State University of New York in Albany are on the contagious yawning case. A RedNova article published yesterday doesn’t quite solve the mystery, but it certainly proves the existance of the phenomenon (as if we didn’t know that), and also asserts that people who are more self-aware and empathetic are more likely to catch yawns from others. Hmmm.
Time will tell if they can prove why it actually occurs, though. As for my other two questions, what’s the deal there?
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