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  2. Why you yawn when you’re bored, according to experts - AOL

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    So if you feel one coming on during a one-on-one with your boss, not all hope is lost. “You can stifle it,” Sullivan says. “I think that’s because yawning has this more social component ...

  3. Yawn - Wikipedia

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    Yawning (oscitation) most often occurs in adults immediately before and after sleep, during tedious activities and as a result of its contagious quality. [8] It is commonly associated with tiredness, stress, sleepiness, boredom, or even hunger. In humans, yawning is often triggered by the perception that others are yawning (for example, seeing ...

  4. Microsleep - Wikipedia

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    EOG is a technique for measuring the resting potential of the retina in the human eye. [32] Eye-video test: Measures eyes blinking and eye movements to detect microsleep events. [33] [34] Mouth yawning test: Counts number of yawns over a period of time. [35] Speech tests: Examines emotions and/or prosody in speech to predict microsleep episodes ...

  5. Yawning may reveal how smart you are - AOL

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    Biologists led by a professor from SUNY Oneonta are saying that there may be a connection between intelligence and the length of yawning.

  6. Sopite syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Drowsiness, yawning, disinclination for work, lack of social participation, mood changes, apathy, sleep disturbances, other fatigue-related symptoms The sopite syndrome ( / s oʊ ˈ p aɪ t / ; from Latin sopire 'to put to sleep') [ 1 ] is a neurological disorder that relates symptoms of fatigue , drowsiness , and mood changes to prolonged ...

  7. Yawning is more contagious for the young, study says - AOL

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    Yawning. We all do it and yet there's no set explanation on why we do it. And just as mysterious is that the act of yawning seems to be contagious. A new study looking at that issue has found that ...

  8. Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia

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    Compared to the eyes of other animals, the uniquely visible and well-defined sclera and iris of human eyes provides further evidence of its evolutionary importance for the species, and are thought to have developed as humans became more reliant upon complex communication for survival and reproductive success.

  9. Can you make it through this video without yawning? - AOL

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    328 participants were asked to watch a three-minute video of people yawning and to keep track of how many times they yawned. Of the 328 participants, 222 contagiously yawned.