You are sitting at your desk yawning, even though you got a full eight hours last night. Why is this happening? Why won't the yawning stop? What is life?
A new video from PopSugar might just have the answer.
The video suggests that there is a differenence between spontaneous yawning and contagious yawning. Meaning, you are reacting to different things when you find yourself catching flies.
Spontaneous yawning happens when you are actually ‘bored’ or ‘tired’, which is what we all associate yawning with. It can also happen to anyone at any age (even babies in the womb!)
Contagious yawning doesn’t happen until we reach the age of four, the age we also start to develop empathy, with a recent study from Duke University outlining how 67% of people will yawn simply by witnessing other people do it first.
So when your colleague starts yawning and you copy seconds later, you are really just empathising with them, both wishing it was home time.
