Can confirm, I do struggle with empathy (more in the autism way than the socio/psychopath way though) and don’t really catch yawns from anyone. I will still pretend to yawn when someone else does though, because I know that not doing that will make them subconsciously wary of me
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aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
One indicator for someone being a socio/psychopath is they don’t yawn when you do. It’s not 100% accurate, but it can be pretty close. Catching a yawn is apparently a sign of empathy, and sociopaths don’t have empathy. At least that’s what I’ve read.
python@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
anzo@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Not everyone will get wary if you don’t yawn. Same way as not everyone thinks the same way about yawns, or just over analyze what others do.
But good for you to try mixin and minglin with the neurotypical crowd :)
Just keep it relaxed
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
This seems like such bullshit pseudoscience. Anyone have any real data to back this up?
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
I got you fam:
Yawn contagion and empathy in Homo sapiens pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22163307/