Neither infants nor toddlers catch yawns from their mothers
Millen and Anderson, Biology Letters 7(3), 2011, 440-442. Parents logged children's yawns for a week with no contagious yawns reported; infants and preschoolers shown yawning clips, including their mothers, did not yawn in response. Spontaneous yawning followed the adult daily pattern.
Millen and Anderson, Biology Letters 7(3), 2011, 440-442. Parents logged children's yawns for a week with no contagious yawns reported; infants and preschoolers shown yawning clips, including their mothers, did not yawn in response. Spontaneous yawning followed the adult daily pattern.
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Millen, A. E., & Anderson, J. R. (2011). Neither infants nor toddlers catch yawns from their mothers. Biology Letters, 7(3), 440-442. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0966 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0966