Contagious yawning: the role of self-awareness and mental state attribution
Contagious yawning: the role of self-awareness and mental state attribution
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10.1016/s0926-6410(03)00109-5
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2003-07-01
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Gallup, GG
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Platek, SM;Critton, SR;Gallup, GG
传染性打哈欠是一种常见的现象，但人们对其了解甚少。我们假设传染性哈欠是一种更普遍的现象的一部分，这种现象被称为精神状态归因（即模仿他人精神状态的能力）。为了验证这一假设，我们比较了对传染性哈欠的易感性与自我面部识别任务的表现，几个心理故事的理论，以及对典型人格特质的测量。与该假设一致，传染性哈欠的易感性与自我面孔识别和心理故事的失礼理论的表现呈正相关，与典型人格特质呈负相关。这些数据表明，传染性打哈欠可能与精神状态归因的共情方面有关，并且像其他自我处理相关任务一样，受到典型人格特征增加的负面影响。(C)2003 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Contagious yawning is a common, but poorly understood phenomenon. We hypothesized that contagious yawning is part of a more general phenomenon known as mental state attribution (i.e. the ability to inferentially model the mental states of others). To test this hypothesis we compared susceptibility to contagiously yawn with performance on a self-face recognition task, several theory of mind stories, and on a measure of schizotypal personality traits. Consistent with the hypothesis, susceptibility to contagiously yawn was positively related to performance on self-face recognition and faux pas theory of mind stories, and negatively related to schizotypal personality traits. These data suggest that contagious yawning may be associated with empathic aspects of mental state attribution and are negatively affected by increases in schizotypal personality traits much like other self-processing related tasks. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.