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  1. petitedov: Do you have a link to an article about that? Sounds interesting.

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    “viewing someone yawn evokes unique neural activity in the posterior cingulate and precuneus…..”

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  3. Here’s the book I was referring to. I haven’t read it, but I want to.
    I found this article that talks about yawning and mirror neurons. It seems to suggest that when you yawn you bypass the mirror neurons – so I guess I’m totally off base…
    BTW silly side note about yawning, when my boyfriend and I first started dating we would have this really silly game where he would make yawn and I would try to resist. It was really, really hard!

  4. How funny. I just pulled out my lp recording of this book last night, read by the wonderful Marvin Miller in the early ’60’s. Don’t know about yawns, but that record for me is very soothing at bedtime. Definitely helped in adding my name to the who’s asleep score.

  5. I always thought it was to synchronize the group for the purpose of sleeping. I can see how it would be a competitive advantage for a group to solve the issue.

  6. my sisters pointer is double jointed, so she would annoy me with it on long car trips when we were really young and such a thing could annoy you. i can yawn at will (or not) and i would give her a yawning fit in return.

    and its not just seeing a yawn, reading or talking about it does it too.

    its not to refresh air, and truly no one has a clear reason why we do it.

    [there are also neat facts and things about tickling another quirky thing we have]

  7. Oh, this does work. My budding young scientist self used to exaggerate a yawn while an altar boy, with 200 or so subjects, back in 1968. I’d always catch 3 or 4 empaths.

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