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29 Dec 2008, 2:50 pm

Do you imitate yawning?

People often yawn when they see others doing so.

That yawning when one sees another yawn might have to do with mirror neurons.

A study on autistic children seems to support this. They did not imitate the yawning nearly as often as the control group did when watching video clips of yawns. See here

I read that even dogs need to yawn often after seeing people yawning.


I do not need to yawn when I see another person yawning. I can, however, make myself yawn and imitate it if I want to. That took me some time to get right.


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29 Dec 2008, 2:52 pm

Sora wrote:
Do you imitate yawning?

People often yawn when they see others doing so.

That yawning when one sees another yawn might have to do with mirror neurons.

A study on autistic children seems to support this. They did not imitate the yawning nearly as often as the control group did when watching video clips of yawns. See here

I read that even dogs need to yawn often after seeing people yawning.


I do not need to yawn when I see another person yawning. I can, however, make myself yawn and imitate it if I want to. That took me some time to get right.


Sometimes I do sometimes I dont. It seems like I just do it if I'm stressed for some reason.



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29 Dec 2008, 3:50 pm

yeah I noticed that it's contagious, but it doesn't really work on me. my dog does yawn when I do though!


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29 Dec 2008, 3:55 pm

I am less likely to give in to the yawning bug.

Having said that, reading the word "yawn" over and over in this thread is making me feel like yawning.


Eeeeeee-yawwwwwwwwwwn...

Excuse me! :oops:


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29 Dec 2008, 3:55 pm

I don't need to imitate etc yawning. I'm constantly tired at the moment and yawn all the time.


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29 Dec 2008, 3:58 pm

I never found yawning to be contagious. Everyone else around me would be yawing, but not me! :lol:

I remember reading a study about 'the contagiousness of yawning' and I was like, "Really? I never noticed. :?"


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29 Dec 2008, 6:03 pm

Yep, it's true - a recent study showed that dogs and NT's yawn 'sympathetically' but Autistics don't.



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29 Dec 2008, 8:38 pm

Sora wrote:
I read that even dogs need to yawn often after seeing people yawning.

Yep, I play a game like that with my dog. It only takes a few tries for her to yawn.

I just watched a few yawning videos on youtube and I didn't feel the need to yawn. Not sure if that counts.

Edit: My cat doesn't imitate my yawning.



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29 Dec 2008, 9:03 pm

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.



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29 Dec 2008, 10:19 pm

People actually yawn when others do?



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29 Dec 2008, 10:23 pm

If I see someone yawn, I usually yawn as well. I have always heard it is contagious. By the way, when I clicked on this "yawn" thread I had to yawn. When you think about it, yawns are strange things aren't they. I've never really researched them, but I'm sure someone here is an expert on them.



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29 Dec 2008, 10:49 pm

Just seeing the post title gave me the urge to yawn. I've heard yawning is way to get more oxygen when one needs it. When one is tired, breathing slows down, and less oxygen is taken in.


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29 Dec 2008, 10:59 pm

I yawned when I read the thread's title.


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30 Dec 2008, 2:15 am

Don't you hate it when you have an itchy nose, like right on the tip of your nose, like there's an ant biting it and you can't scratch it. When you have stuff in your hands, or they're all covered in something gooey. And you just have to scratch your nose. You try to rub your nose on your shoulder or your upper arm but that just won't cut it. You need to scratch that itch, like a little burning fire that only scratching can put out...

...Now, how many of you scratched or touched your nose reading that? Or how many of you were suddenly aware of itches somewhere else on your body? :)


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30 Dec 2008, 7:43 am

Occasionally I will yawn if I see others do it (I'm yawning right now. :P)


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30 Dec 2008, 9:52 am

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Do you imitate yawning?

People often yawn when they see others doing so.

That yawning when one sees another yawn might have to do with mirror neurons.

A study on autistic children seems to support this. They did not imitate the yawning nearly as often as the control group did when watching video clips of yawns. See here

I read that even dogs need to yawn often after seeing people yawning.


I do not need to yawn when I see another person yawning. I can, however, make myself yawn and imitate it if I want to. That took me some time to get right.

no,but staff keep complaining when am yawning-they say stop doing it because they cant stop.


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