The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1
easy to set up yawn experiments, there can still be challenges
with interpreting the results. See: Kapitány R. and Nielsen M.,
‘Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of
Yawn Contagion’, Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology,
2017.


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