In the study, healthy volunteers were shown photos and videos of people yawning. The intention was to induce contagious yawning. The participants were observed through hidden cameras, ...

image: Participants of the study were asked to judge whether the people in the photos were yawning or not. view more Credit: Chia-huei Tseng. Contagious yawning is a universal phenomenon, but why ...

Wondering what's been going on lately in the field of chasmology (the scientific study of yawning)? Well, we still don't really understand why people yawn, but we can add another contender to the list ...

In the summer, 24% of subjects reported yawning while they looked at the pictures. In the winter, that number went up to 45%. Additionally, the longer people had been outside in the summer heat, the ...

Dogs do it. Cats do it. Even fish and guinea pigs do it. If the guy next to you at a dull meeting at work does it, chances are you will, too. But as common as it is to yawn, scientists have never ...

Abes Abian pasted black and white portraits of people coupled with a lyric from Nas along Aguinaldo Highway as a study on the contagious effects of yawning. Skip to content OCTOBER 27, 2022 ...

Participants in the studies were all shown pictures of other people yawning in order to trigger what is known as "contagious yawning," and then reported on their own yawning behavior.

Why people yawn is a mystery. But yawning starts in the womb. Past studies have used ultrasound images to show fetuses yawning, but some scientists have argued that real yawns were getting ...