女性之间打哈欠传染更为普遍
[b]It's a well-known fact that yawning is contagious and can spread around a room in a matter of seconds, but it turns out the phenomenon is more common among women.[/b][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][b]众所周知，打哈欠是会传染的，一个房间里的人陆续打哈欠，也就是几秒的事儿。更有结果证明，这种传染在女性之间更为普遍。[/b][/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]During tests, researchers found that while men and women yawn spontaneously at equal rates, women are more likely to yawn in 'reply' to another person's [url=http://www.enread.com/news/cultureandedu/103630.html]yawn[/url].[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Yawning in response to someone else is a recognised sign of empathy, which suggests that women are more empathetic and attuned to others than men.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The research was carried out at Pisa University in Italy.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][url=http://www.enread.com/news/cultureandedu/103630.html]Empathy[/url] is the ability to understand and share the internal emotional states of others, and previous research has already shown that women are better at it than men.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]For example, research has revealed women more often mimic the facial expressions of others, showing they are picking up on the other person's state of mind.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]A team led by Elisabetta Palagi, set out to examine whether women are more likely to unconsciously mimic another person's yawning.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]To test their theory, the experts secretly observed people in hundreds of work and social situations over a period of five years.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]They particularly noted if subjects 'returned' another person's yawn within three minutes.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The authors, writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, defined yawning scientifically as 'an involuntary sequence of mouth opening, deep inspiration, brief apnoea [stopping breathing] and slow expiration'.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]While they said men and [url=http://www.enread.com/news/cultureandedu/103630.html]women[/url] yawned spontaneously at equal rates, they discovered that once someone had yawned, female participants were more likely to yawn as well.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Explaining why they think women are more likely to unconsciously mimic somebody else's sleepiness, the researchers said that having a close emotional bond with the 'trigger' yawner - if they are friends or relations - makes a person more likely to pick up on their mood than that of a stranger.[/size][/font]
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