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How are they the same?
Yawning and laughing can be catching. Give it a try! Start yawning and watch to see if people around you start to yawn with you. “Yawning is extraordinarily contagious,” says Robert Provine, a professor of
psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Even reading about yawning can cause a person to yawn. Are you yawning yet?
Have you ever caught a case of the giggles with a friend? Then you know how contagious laughter can be. “We really can’t help ourselves from doing it: When we’re around laughing people, we laugh,” says Provine. “You start to do it and you can’t stop. And the harder you try, the worse it gets.” While laughing can bring
Describe a time that you were with a group of people laughing together in a good way.
people together, it can also push people apart. That is called jeering or ridicule . Laughing at a person in a way that hurts them is a kind of bullying.
Describe a time that you saw people hurt someone by laughing.
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