What Makes People Yawn?

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This episode started because we got this email from a listener named chris, all about yawns. The more i looked into it, the more i realized how much i'd kind of fundamentally misunderstood yawns for my entire life. So what do you think makes people yawn? I think it's probably related to attention.

People yawn when they’re bored, right? So then why do athletes yawn before races? And why do so many animals yawn? … And why does reading this paragraph make you more likely to yawn?

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