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Yawning Detection Sensitivity and Yawning Contagion.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reduced contagious yawning in psychiatric disorders: a systematic review of potential social-cognitive mechanisms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Is it a Match? Yawn Contagion and Smile Mimicry in Toddlers.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Yawning and scratching contagion in wild spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi).Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Yawn contagion in bonobos: Another group, another story.American journal of primatology · 2022Article
- People that score high on psychopathic traits are less likely to yawn contagiously.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- First evidence of yawn contagion in a wild monkey species.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Auditory Contagious Yawning Is Highest Between Friends and Family Members: Support to the Emotional Bias Hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Observational data reveal evidence and parameters of contagious yawning in the behavioral repertoire of captive-reared chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Contagious yawning in virtual reality is affected by actual, but not simulated, social presence.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Contagious yawning-the urge to yawn when thinking about, listening to, or viewing yawning-is a well-documented phenomenon in humans and animals. The reduced yawn contagion observed in the autistic population suggested that it might be empathy related; however, it is unknown whether such a connection applies to nonclinical populations. We examined influences from both empathy (i.e., autistic traits) and nonempathy factors (i.e., individuals' perceptual detection sensitivity to yawning, happy, and angry faces) on 41 nonclinical adults. We induced contagious yawning with a 5-minute video and 20 yawning photo stimuli. In addition, we measured participants' autistic traits (with the autism-spectrum quotient questionnaire), eye gaze patterns, and their perceptual thresholds to detect yawning and emotion in human face photos. We found two factors associated with yawning contagion: (a) those more sensitive to detect yawning, but not other emotional expressions, displayed more contagious yawning than those less sensitive to yawning expressions, and (b) female participants exhibited significantly more contagious yawning than male participants. We did not find an association between autistic trait and contagious yawning. Our study offers a working hypothesis for future studies, in that perceptual encoding of yawning interacts with susceptibility to contagious yawning.
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