wen u notice someone yawning even u tend 2 yawn why?

Question

i hv noticed this several times ......even u can do the same.....juz look at a person who is yawning and u'll start doing the same.....well i dont know why this happens???any reason???

Answer 1

yes.
I don't know.
I do the same when someone folds their arms.
Monkey see. Monkey Do

Answer 2

I'm not a yawnologist, but I'm going to answer this question to the best of my knowledge anyway. I think that back when we were cavemen/women (cave people?) yawning was kind of a "good night" and "good morning" gesture. Someone would yawn "Good night", and everyone else would yawn in response. That was one of the first gestures of many that would eventually form into languages, and therefore yawning is a universal gesture. Due to it being one of the earliest forms of language, it got ingrained so hard into our collective conscious, that we tend to subconsciously yawn after seeing someone else do it, even though it has lost it's original meaning.

Of course, it could just be that yawning feels great.

Answer 3

Researchers recently found that yawning isn’t only catching among people; it is also among chimpanzees. No one has devised a fully convincing explanation of why.Compounding the mystery is the odd way in which the contagious power of yawning is largely unconscious. We can see someone yawn, yearn to replicate the action ourselves, and do it, all without thinking about it. Other times we’re aware it is happening, though it still floats somewhere beneath the realm of reason and of purposeful actions.So what gives? In an effort to find the answer, the Finnish government recently funded a brain scanning study. The results turned up some hard-to-interpret, possible clues. It also confirmed the obvious: yawn contagion is largely unconscious. Wherever it might affect the brain, it bypasses the known brain circuitry for consciously analyzing and mimicking other people’s actions.This circuitry is called the “mirror-neuron system,” because it contains a special type of brain cells, or neurons, that become active both when their owner does something, and when he or she senses someone else doing the same thing. Mirror neurons typically become active when a person consciously imitates an action of someone else, a process associated with learning. But they seem to play no role in yawn contagiousness, the researchers in the new study found. The cells are have no extra activity during contagious yawning compared with during other non-contagious facial movements, they observed.Brain activity “associated with viewing another person yawn seems to circumvent the essential parts of the MNS [mirror neuron system], in line with the nature of contagious yawns as automatically released behavioural acts—rather than truly imitated motor patterns that would require detailed action understanding,” wrote the researchers, with the Helsinki University of Technology and the Research Centre Jülich, Germany. The findings are published in the February issue of the research journal Neuroimage.But if seeing someone yawn doesn’t activate these centers, what does it do to the brain? The researchers found that it appears to strongly activate at least one brain area, called the superior temporal sulcus. But this activation was unrelated to any desire to yawn in response, so it may be irrelevant to the contagion question, the researchers added.Possibly more significant, they wrote, was the apparent deactivation of a second brain area, called the left periamygdalar region. The more strongly a participant reported wanting to yawn in response to another person’s yawn, the stronger was this deactivation. “This finding represents the first known neurophysiological signature of perceived yawn contagiousness,” the researchers wrote.Exactly what the finding means is less clear, they acknowledged. The periamygdalar region is a zone that lies alongside the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain in the area of the side of the head. The periamygdalar region has been linked to the unconscious analysis of emotional expressions in faces. Why it would be deactivated in tandem with yawn contagion is unclear, the researchers said.One thing seems clear from the study is that “contagious yawning does not rely on brain mechanisms of action understanding,” wrote one of the researchers, Riitta Hari of the Helsinki University of Technology, in a recent email. Rather, she continued, it seems to be an “‘automatically’ released (and most likely very archaic) motor pattern,” or sequence of physical actions.n the study, volunteers looked at videos of actors yawning or making other mouth movements. Meanwhile their brains were scanned using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a system that shows the amount of activity or work going on in various brain areas based on the amount of oxygen being used up there. The volunteers were later asked how strongly they had been tempted to yawn while viewing the pictures.Apart from the physical brain mechanisms of yawn contagiousness, researchers have offered different reasons as to why it exists. Some have proposed that in early humans, yawn contagiousness might have helped people communicate their alertness levels to each other, and thus coordinate their sleep schedules.This might be part of a more general phenomenon of unconscious signals that serve to synchronize group behavior, the authors of the Neuroimage paper wrote. “Such synchronization could be essential for species survival and works without action understanding, like when a flock of birds rises to the air as soon as the first bird does so—supposably as it notices a predator.”

Answer 4

Seeing someone yawn also makes u yawn is because it helps kick start your brain to start taking in oxygen, when ppl donot have enough sleep they yawn as the brain lacks oxygen so upon seeing someone yawn it's set off the psychological effect of prompting you to yawn. So next time if u dun feel like yawning and wanna stay alert, just take in a deep breath! It'll stop the yawning! Drink lotsa water too!

Answer 5

It is the sensation which arouses when other yawns.Even hunger is the same way.If u smell some delicacy u start feeling hungry bcoz ur taste buds will get activated.
Same way when some one yawns then ur mind gets activated that even u need to relax for some time.then u also yawns.This is the mechanism.

Answer 6

Yawning is the reaction of a number of people responding to the same boring environment. That is why people think that it's contagious.

Answer 7

that replaced into strange, when I study your question i yawned yet that replaced into in all likelihood a twist of fate. i do no longer yawn when I study the word yawn yet i yawn when I see some one else yawning.

Answer 8

Catfish Effect

Answer 9

Man's behaviour is imitative. He learnt most of his behaviiour by copying others reactions. That is how yawning is also replicated.

Answer 10

yawning is infectious. sometimes due to lack of oxygen or tiredness ppl yawn. if one yawns in front of the other, the other one dislikes this gesture n feels u r not interested in him/her. so he/she sometimes yawns in response to convey even he/she is also not interested in u.

Answer 11

i read somewhere it's because of lack of oxygen...you know, the person yawn and then that adds up to more lack of oxygen causing another person to yawn...but i also yawned after reading your question...seriously....