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  • Interestingly, there is a theory that contagious yawning can be used to measure someone’s ability to appreciate other people’s mental states (empathy). So autistic people do not yawn in response to videos of people yawning
  • Yawning is also thought to be a mechanism to wake the brain up when it requires it. Read the facts here

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