Bulaşıcı Esneme "Empati İşareti"
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Contagious Yawn "Sign of Empathy"
02/01/2010 19:00:24
Contagiousyawn'sign of empathy' - Bulaşıcı Esneme "empati işareti"
By Liz Seward
Science reporter, Festival of Science, York
Humans and other apes find yawning infectious.
Yawning may reveal more about a person than their boredom threshold, according to research.
Asusceptibilityto contagious yawning may actually be a sign of a high-level of social empathy. Although manyspeciesyawn, only some humans and possibly their close animal relatives find yawninginfectious, suggesting the reason is psychological. The University of Leeds research was presented at the British Association's Festival of Science in York.
"Contagious yawning is a very interestingbehaviour," said Dr Catriona Morrison, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leeds, who isleadingthe work. "You don't need avisualcue, you don't even need anauditorycue - you can just read about it or think about it and it gets you going. "We believe that contagious yawning indicates empathy. Itindicatesanappreciationof other people's behavioural and physiological state," she added.
Eyes have it.
Recent neuro-imaging has shown that the same area of the brain is involved whenreactingto yawning and when considering others. The University of Leeds teamcarried outan experiment on students studying psychology and engineering to test this concept.
Each student was shown to anoccupiedwaiting room where their companion was actually a researcher who yawned 10 times in 10 minutes. The scientists recorded how often the students yawned in response. Each participant was then asked to complete a test of their empathetic skills, in which they analysed pictures of eyes and recorded the emotions shown.
The results showed that those who hadsuccumbedto the most contagious yawning also scored higher on the empathy tests. There was also a clear difference between thesubjectsstudied. Psychology students were more susceptible to contagious yawning, and scored significantly higher on the empathy test than did the engineering students.
Catriona Morrison said: "We thought that psychology students would be highly empathetic and that engineering students would be more systemised, more interested in numbers and formulas." The results of the experimentappeartoback upthis, she added.
Bulaşıcı Esneme "Empati İşareti" - Contagious Yawn "Sign of Empathy"
Contagious yawn'sign of empathy' - Bulaşıcı Esneme "empati işareti"
By Liz Seward
Science reporter, Festival of Science, York
Humans and other apes find yawning infectious.
Yawning may reveal more about a person than their boredom threshold, according to research.
Asusceptibilityto contagious yawning may actually be a sign of a high-level of social empathy. Although manyspeciesyawn, only some humans and possibly their close animal relatives find yawninginfectious, suggesting the reason is psychological. The University of Leeds research was presented at the British Association's Festival of Science in York.
"Contagious yawning is a very interestingbehaviour," said Dr Catriona Morrison, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leeds, who isleadingthe work. "You don't need avisualcue, you don't even need anauditorycue - you can just read about it or think about it and it gets you going. "We believe that contagious yawning indicates empathy. Itindicatesanappreciationof other people's behavioural and physiological state," she added.
Eyes have it.
Recent neuro-imaging has shown that the same area of the brain is involved whenreactingto yawning and when considering others. The University of Leeds teamcarried outan experiment on students studying psychology and engineering to test this concept.
Each student was shown to anoccupiedwaiting room where their companion was actually a researcher who yawned 10 times in 10 minutes. The scientists recorded how often the students yawned in response. Each participant was then asked to complete a test of their empathetic skills, in which they analysed pictures of eyes and recorded the emotions shown.
The results showed that those who hadsuccumbedto the most contagious yawning also scored higher on the empathy tests. There was also a clear difference between thesubjectsstudied. Psychology students were more susceptible to contagious yawning, and scored significantly higher on the empathy test than did the engineering students.
Catriona Morrison said: "We thought that psychology students would be highly empathetic and that engineering students would be more systemised, more interested in numbers and formulas." The results of the experimentappeartoback upthis, she added.