Chimpanzees Show a Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning: A Test of the Effect of Ontogeny and Emotional Closeness on Yawn Contagion

Elainie Alenkær Madsen; Tomas Persson; Susan Sayehli; Sara Lenninger; Göran Sonesson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076266

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Chimpanzees Show a Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning: A Test of the Effect of Ontogeny and Emotional Closeness on Yawn Contagion

Elainie Alenkær Madsen ,

* E-mail: Elainie.Madsen@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Semiotics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Tomas Persson,

Affiliation Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Susan Sayehli,

Affiliations Department of Linguistics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Humanities Lab, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Sara Lenninger,

Affiliation Department of Semiotics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Göran Sonesson

Affiliation Department of Semiotics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Chimpanzees Show a Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning: A Test of the Effect of Ontogeny and Emotional Closeness on Yawn Contagion

Elainie Alenkær Madsen,
Tomas Persson,
Susan Sayehli,
Sara Lenninger,
Göran Sonesson

Published: October 16, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076266

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Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 25 Oct 2013 at 23:04 GMT

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Publication: Digital Journal
Title: “Young chimps copy human yawns”
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Publication: LA Times
Title: “Video shows chimpanzees find human yawns contagious - latimes.com”
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Publication: Nature World News
Title: “Older Chimps Yawn in Response to Humans”
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Publication: Q 13 Fox News
Title: “Video shows chimpanzees find human yawns contagious | Q13 FOX News”
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Publication: South China Morning Post
Title: “Scientist finds contagious yawning takes hold among older chimpanzees | South China Morning Post”
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Publication: New York Times Science Takes
Title: “ScienceTake: The Contagious Yawn - Video - NYTimes.com”
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Elainie replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 17 Nov 2013 at 08:13 GMT

Publication: The Telegraph
Title: Chimpanzees 'catch' yawns from humans
http://www.telegraph.co.u...

Publication: Daily Mail:
Title: Yawning is even contagious across species! Remarkable video shows chimps catching yawns from humans

http://www.dailymail.co.u...

Publication: NBC News
Title: Chimps catch yawns from humans, study shows http://www.nbcnews.com/sc...

Publication: Scientific American
Title: Searching for the Social in Contagious Yawning
http://blogs.scientificam...

Competing interests declared: Co-author

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Chimpanzees Show a Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning: A Test of the Effect of Ontogeny and Emotional Closeness on Yawn Contagion

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