I’m not bored, I’m empathetic

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Here’s one Mark will appreciate: Contagious Yawn “Sign of Empathy”. Apparently neuroscience suggests that people who yawn a lot are more empathetic. In the research the Beeb report,

Psychology students were more susceptible to contagious yawning, and scored significantly higher on the empathy test than did the engineering students.

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