Why contagious yawning does not (yet) equate to empathy
Massen and Gallup, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 80, 2017, 573-585. Systematic review of evidence linking contagious yawning to empathy across self-reported empathy, familiarity, sex, disorders, development, imaging and neurophysiology; evidence inconsistent and inconclusive; confounds include visual attention and social inhibition; calls for objective measures.
Massen and Gallup, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 80, 2017, 573-585. Systematic review of evidence linking contagious yawning to empathy across self-reported empathy, familiarity, sex, disorders, development, imaging and neurophysiology; evidence inconsistent and inconclusive; confounds include visual attention and social inhibition; calls for objective measures.
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Massen, J. J. M., & Gallup, A. C. (2017). Why contagious yawning does not (yet) equate to empathy. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 80, 573-585. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.07.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.07.006