Platek Steven M, Critton Samuel R, Myers Thomas E, Gallup Gordon G
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, USA.
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2003 Jul;17(2):223-7. doi: 10.1016/s0926-6410(03)00109-5.
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.
传染性打哈欠是一种常见但却鲜为人知的现象。我们推测，传染性打哈欠是一种更普遍现象的一部分，这种现象被称为心理状态归因（即推断他人心理状态的能力）。为了验证这一假设，我们将传染性打哈欠的易感性与自我面部识别任务、几个心理理论故事以及分裂型人格特质测量的表现进行了比较。与该假设一致，传染性打哈欠的易感性与自我面部识别和失礼心理理论故事的表现呈正相关，与分裂型人格特质呈负相关。这些数据表明，传染性打哈欠可能与心理状态归因的共情方面有关，并且与其他自我加工相关任务一样，会受到分裂型人格特质增加的负面影响。
