Yawn of the Dread

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Contagious yawning has been linked to empathy levels in several studies. However, new research in the journal Personality and Individual Differences finds that people with psychopathic traits—especially a lack of empathy—are not as susceptible to catching a case of the yawns. Jeff and Anthony discuss whether not "catching" a yawn makes you a psychopath, and specifically what that means for their own yawning habits.

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0:00.0	We have concerns is only made possible because of generous donations from our patrons.
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0:30.5	I can talk about Dr. Stranger an hour and I haven't even seen it yet, but we're not going to do that.
0:34.0	This is We Have Concerned. It's Hi Jeff Canada. Hi Anthony Carbony. Hello concerned citizens.
0:39.2	We got ourselves a story sent in by Andrew Tomlinson.
0:43.0	Andrew Tomlinson sending in another story. That's right.
0:46.6	Andrew Tomlinson, I'm going to say you're three away from a nickname. He's close.
0:50.0	He's close. He's close. This he was sent to we have concerns show at gmail.com.
0:55.1	Great way to send story. Great place. Do that.
0:57.6	Yeah. Let me ask you a question Anthony. Sure.
1:01.8	When someone yons nearby, do you yon also do catch the yon?
1:07.2	If I'm crazy, crazy, crazy tired. Yeah. If I'm crazy in love and crazy tired,
1:15.4	if Beyonce yons, no matter where she is in the world, I yon too.
1:19.7	And I think we all do. Yeah. Because we all love Queen Bee.
1:22.5	We do. So you have to be tired already in order to yon.
1:25.8	So it doesn't really have nothing to do with the fact that the person yon.
1:28.9	No, you're going to yon anyway. And even then it only happens sometimes.
1:33.1	I only catch the yon about 30% of the time. I'm a person that catches the yon
1:37.6	all the time. It's kind of annoying. In fact, the white yon is this another
1:42.4	fucking story about how you're a good person and I'm not.
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