http://www.impactlab.net/2010/12/05/babies-are-immune-to-catching-yawns/
December 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Babies Are Immune to Catching Yawns
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There is now growing evidence, however, that yawning may be a social cue that communicates a message. Anthropologists have suggested it might have evolved as a way of signifying that it is time to go to bed. There are even suggestions that it might have developed a sign of sexual attraction rather than the desire to sleep. Dr Anderson said: “I don’t think there is one primary function, but as adults we have a natural tendency to inhibit yawning because it is seen as being impolite. The contagious yawning might just that our brains see someone else doing it and so it becomes acceptable.”
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Who ever even heard of “contagious yawning”?
And, attaching it to “sexual attraction”?
Was that what all those girls were “signaling” when they yawned while I was pitching them? If I had only known …
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