As chimpanzees grow, so does yawn contagion
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
As sanctuary-kept chimpanzees grow from infant to juvenile, they develop increased susceptibility to human yawn contagion, possibility due to their increasing ability to empathize, says a study published October 16, 2013, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elainie Madsen and colleagues from Lund University.