Can confirm, I do struggle with empathy (more in the autism way than the socio/psychopath way though) and don’t really catch yawns from anyone. I will still pretend to yawn when someone else does though, because I know that not doing that will make them subconsciously wary of me
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aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
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python@lemmy.world 11 months ago
anzo@programming.dev 11 months ago
Not everyone will get wary if you don’t yawn. Same way as not everyone thinks the same way about yawns, or just over analyze what others do.
But good for you to try mixin and minglin with the neurotypical crowd :)
Just keep it relaxed
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
This seems like such bullshit pseudoscience. Anyone have any real data to back this up?
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I got you fam:
Yawn contagion and empathy in Homo sapiens pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22163307/
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
That abstract is not very convincing to me if I’m being honest.
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 11 months ago
That’s okay. You asked for real data. You can find more if you care to search peer reviewed articles. I’m not trying to convince you of anything, just showing that it is a real topic of study.