• uphillbothways
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    1 year ago

    Seems like if you read between the lines, there’s a certain commonality in increased respiration/alertness, stress response and showing of teeth that solves a common need across species. When a subject recognizes a lack of alertness, a present threat or the need for aggressive action in the near future, a yawn can help prepare for that while also giving pause to those who might be threats and/or potentially paralyzing prey. The failure in consensus here appears, to me, an inability to describe those seemingly disparate needs as related to the physiology that drives them. Not a lack of understanding, so much as a deficiency in perlocution.

    • @PlantDadManGuy
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      401 year ago

      Ay yo so I was bout to tell you how that’s all wrong, but then you go throwin out words like “perlocution” and now I realize you probly know what the fuck is up, so I’m just gonna trust.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I’ve read that people with autism are less likely to catch a yawn. Not sure if that’s true.

      I’ve taken meds that caused uncontrollable yawning. That’s super annoying!

        • Flying Squid
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          11 year ago

          Yes, but can you catch a yawn from someone else? That’s the claim about autism, that someone else yawning does not tend to make people on the spectrum yawn. I have no idea whether or not that is true.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        You’re thinking of psychopathy.

        A true psychopath (someone with no real empathy) will not catch a yawn as it requires an empathetic response