Does reading the word 'yawn' cause a person to yawn?

Today we know that a yawn is a reflex of inhalation and exhalation that draws more oxygen into the bloodstream. A reflex is a built-in physical reaction that people often do not have control over. A yawn is often associated with a person being tired, but this is not always the cause for a yawn.

People yawn for many reasons including stress, boredom, emotion and over-work. Have you noticed that yawning seems to be contagious? If one person yawns, this appears to cause another person to yawn.

Researchers have found that 40-60% of people who see a picture of someone yawning will yawn themselves. Even reading the word YAWN can make people yawn. Maybe a yawn is a signal to the group that it’s time to go to sleep.

Or if someone yawns when they’re bored, it may be a sign to change the topic of conversation.

As of yet, reading the word "yawn" has not caused me to yawn.

I believe that in 60% of cases it does, generally means your a sympathetic yawner! I personally don't, nor do I yawn when someone else does. I recall this from an article in the Sunday Age late last year.

If that person imagines vividly, then it would be almost like seeing somebody else yawn and, therefore, contagious. Think of someone reading an erotic text. Indeed something happens, "literary quality" aside, but only if the person is reading in an active way, not just scanning or with eyes wandering upon the ink, while thinking of something else at the same time.

I know I have yawned a couple of times and not because I was reading something boring, just like I have felt anxious, excited, threatened, in love, fearful and so on.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.