Why do people yawn when someone near them yawns?
I once read that yawning is indeed contagious. When you see someone yawning, you soon will. When you hear one on the telephone, you soon will be yawning. And now, when we read it, it invokes the same effect. I’m sure this might also work for text messaging this dreaded 4-letter word, and just imagine what this would do if an advertiser puts up a huge billboard alongside a busy highway!!!! Here’s something interesting on the subject: “Contagiousness The yawn reflex is often described as contagious: if one person yawns, this will cause another person to “sympathetically” yawn.[3] Mythbusters attempted an experiment documenting this effect in episode 2.28, “Is Yawning Contagious?”, with a conclusion of partly confirmed. The proximate cause for contagious yawning may lie with mirror neurons, i.e. neurons in the frontal cortex of certain vertebrates, which upon being exposed to a stimulus from conspecific (same species) and occasionally interspecific organisms, activates the same regions in
