Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo

Casetta, Grazia; Nolfo, Andrea Paolo; Palagi, Elisabetta

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.02.010

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“…Thus, the reduced tendency to yawn contagiously among individuals scoring high in psychopathic traits could reflect a generalized impairment in biobehavioral synchrony. Moreover, it has been theorized that contagious yawning evolved to enhance collective vigilance 48 , 49 and coordinate or synchronize group behavior 50 – 53 , and these functional accounts for yawn contagion can explain the negative association between contagious yawning and psychopathy in the absence of emotional contagion. For example, groups characterized by higher levels of psychopathy have previously been shown to have more dysfunctional interactions and lower levels of cohesion 60 .…”

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“…Interestingly, both ASD and the prevalence of psychopathic traits are more common among males 46 , 47 . These populations are also of interest to study with regards to the hypothesized functional significance of yawn contagion in promoting collective vigilance and synchronized group behavior/movement 48 – 53 . Impairments in imitation and joint attention among individuals with ASD diminish cooperation and coordinated actions 54 .…”

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People that score high on psychopathic traits are less likely to yawn contagiously

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Considerable variation exists in the contagiousness of yawning, and numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the proximate mechanisms involved in this response. Yet, findings within the psychological literature are mixed, with many studies conducted on relatively small and homogeneous samples. Here, we aimed to replicate and extend upon research suggesting a negative relationship between psychopathic traits and yawn contagion in community samples. In the largest study of contagious yawning to date (N = 458), which included both university students and community members from across 50 nationalities, participants completed an online study in which they self-reported on their yawn contagion to a video stimulus and completed four measures of psychopathy: the primary and secondary psychopathy scales from the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRPS), the psychopathy construct from the Dirty Dozen, and the Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS). Results support previous findings in that participants that yawned contagiously tended to score lower on the combined and primary measures of psychopathy. That said, tiredness was the strongest predictor across all models. These findings align with functional accounts of spontaneous and contagious yawning and a generalized impairment in overall patterns of behavioral contagion and biobehavioral synchrony among people high in psychopathic traits.

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“…As a state, it would encompass individual's fluctuations due to, for example, differences in the social context, which in some cases lead to counter-mimicry. Furthermore, either as a sequence of discrete events or as a signal of the onset of coordinated behavioral outbursts [Casetta et al, 2021], spontaneous mimicry between two individuals would contribute to the organization of the temporal structure of the interaction.…”

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Collective rhythm as an emergent property during human social coordination

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Ramos‐Fernández²

2021

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The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a temporal structure to the individual and to the social dynamics. However, it has not been fully explored whether such temporal patterns emerge during interpersonal coordination beyond dyads, whether this phenomenon arises from complex cognitive mechanisms or from relatively simple rules of behavior, or the sociocultural processes that underlie this phenomenon. We review the evidence for the existence of group-level rhythmic patterns that result from social interactions and argue that, by imposing a temporal structure at the individual and interaction levels, interpersonal coordination in groups leads to temporal regularities that cannot be predicted from the individual periodicities: a collective rhythm. Moreover, we use this interpretation of the literature to discuss how taking into account the sociocultural niche in which individuals develop can help explain the seemingly divergent results that have been reported on the social influences and consequences of interpersonal coordination. We make recommendations on further research to test these arguments and their relationship to the feeling of belonging and assimilation experienced during group dynamics.

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“…Moving outside the playful context, another interesting phenomenon is yawn contagion, a widespread and well-known facial mimicry phenomenon in vertebrates [86]. Notwithstanding the strong debate about the proximate factors underlining the behavior [87], there is a consensus that yawn contagion is a behavioral tool to help synchronization between subjects [88,89] thus probably leading, in the long term, to an increase in familiarity between subjects [90]. In the Rheine colony, Palagi and co-workers [90] found that geladas were infected by others' yawns.…”

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Bridging Captive and Wild Studies: Behavioral Plasticity and Social Complexity in Theropithecus gelada

Palagi

Bergman

2021

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Cognitive ethology explores the ability of animals to flexibly adapt their behavior to rapid physical and social environment fluctuations. Although there is a historical dichotomy between field and captive studies, recently, a growing interest in questions that sit at the intersection of cognitive and adaptive perspectives has helped bridge this divide. By focusing on Theropithecus gelada, we discuss the three main reasons why this hybrid approach is extremely successful. First, captive and wild studies provide data at different social, spatial, and temporal scales that can be synthesized to give a fuller picture of the behavior. Secondly, apparently conflicting results from captive and wild settings are powerful tools to explore behavioral flexibility and latent behavioral tendencies. Third, the different settings provide ways of validating and exploring behaviors that are noticed in the other setting. Although we were able to bring together our captive and wild research to demonstrate these ideas, we could have obtained a more integrated vision on the proximate and ultimate gelada behavioral and cognitive strategies if we had considered this hybrid approach from the beginning. We hope that this manuscript stimulates scholars in designing their studies by taking into account the incredible potential of a complementary captive-wild research approach.

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Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo

Cited by 27 publications

References 106 publications

People that score high on psychopathic traits are less likely to yawn contagiously

People that score high on psychopathic traits are less likely to yawn contagiously

Collective rhythm as an emergent property during human social coordination

Bridging Captive and Wild Studies: Behavioral Plasticity and Social Complexity in Theropithecus gelada

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