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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020

Auditory Contagious Yawning Is Highest Between Friends and Family Members: Support to the Emotional Bias Hypothesis.

Ivan Norscia, Anna Zanoli, Marco Gamba, Elisabetta Palagi

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ivan NorsciaDepartment of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, School of Nature Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Anna ZanoliDepartment of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, School of Nature Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Marco GambaDepartment of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, School of Nature Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Elisabetta PalagiUnit of Ethology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
University of Turin · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contagious yawning differs from spontaneous yawning because it occurs when an individual yawns in response to someone else's yawn. In

Indexed as

bottom-up attentionemotional contagionmimicryselective attentiontop-down attentionyawn contagion

Identifiers

PMID32317997
PMCPMC7147458
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