"Only social bonding predicted the occurrence, frequency, and pace of yawn spread. More precisely, contagion was highest in response to family, then friends, then acquaintances, and finally strangers — the same pattern observed in other measures of empathy."

Study finds yawns are contagious only between people who care about one another (via curiositycounts)

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