• Jebus@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I watched a video a couple years ago where they did an experiment with chimps. I thought they concluded that the “cantagious” yawning has to deal with the animals empathy and wanting to be like others, it was a social thing in pretty sure. I have no idea where to even find this video though so take that with a grain of salt

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      1 year ago

      Mythbusters rated contagious yawns as plausible, I believe, because they observed multiple instances of yawns spreading throughout a building where the participants couldn’t see each other.

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        Its all pretty interesting to think about honestly! Hopefully we get an actual answer instead of just speculation!