Yawning as a Brain Cooling Mechanism: Nasal Breathing and Forehead Cooling Diminish the Incidence of Contagious Yawning
We conducted two experiments that implicate yawning as a thermoregulatory mechanism. The first experiment demonstrates that different patterns of breathing influence susceptibility to contagious yawning. When participants were not directed how to breathe or were instructed to breathe orally (inhalin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490700500109 |