打哈欠会传染 女性间尤如此
Yawning is MORE contagious among women due to their higher levels of empathy
It's a well-known fact that yawning is contagious and can spread around a room in a matter of seconds, but it turns out the phenomenon is more common among women.
众所周知,打哈欠是会传染的,一个房间里的人陆续打哈欠,也就是几秒的事儿.更有结果证明,这种传染在女性之间更为普遍.
During tests, researchers found that while men and women yawn spontaneously at equal rates, women are more likely to yawn in 'reply' to another person's yawn.
在测试过程中,研究人员发现,相同频率下,男人和女人自发地打哈欠时,女性更可能会受他人影响打哈欠.
Yawning in response to someone else is a recognised sign of empathy, which suggests that women are more empathetic and attuned to others than men.
回应别人的哈欠是个公认的移情标志.因此上面的结果表明,与男人相比,女性更加善解人意.
The research was carried out at Pisa University in Italy.
这项研究是在意大利的比萨大学进行的.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the internal emotional states of others, and previous research has already shown that women are better at it than men.
移情是理解和分享他人内心情绪状态的能力,以前的研究已经表明,女性的移情能力要比男性更强.
For example, research has revealed women more often mimic the facial expressions of others, showing they are picking up on the other person's state of mind.
例如研究发现,女性更经常模仿别人的面部表情,这表明她们正在揣摩别人的心理状态.
A team led by Elisabetta Palagi, set out to examine whether women are more likely to unconsciously mimic another person's yawning.
伊丽莎白·帕拉吉带领的团队,对女性是否"更可能无意识地模仿另一个人打哈欠"进行了研究.
