Catching A Yawn Is Linked To Empathy And Pyschopaths Can't Do It

  • 5 years ago
According to Business Insider, contagious yawning has been linked to empathy. And since psychopaths lack empathy for others as a general rule, they're less likely to catch another person's yawn. This is according to a Baylor University study conducted in 2015 that found that scoring highly on a checklist for psychopathy was associated with a lower chance of catching yawns. Bear in mind, this isn't to say if someone doesn't yawn when you do they must be a psychopath.

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