{"id":12500,"date":"2014-10-28T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:04:07","slug":"one-of-sciences-most-baffling-questions-why-we-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/one-of-sciences-most-baffling-questions-why-we-yawn","title":{"rendered":"One of science\u2019s most baffling questions? Why we yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author author-has-profile author-profile-collapsed \" style=\"z-index: 1000;\">\n<div class=\"author-information story-meta\">David Robson \u2014 BBC Future<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-information story-meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-information story-meta\">\n<p>Mid-conversation with Robert Provine, I have a compelling urge, rising from deep inside my body. The more I try to quash it, the more it seems to spread, until it consumes my whole being. Eventually, it is all I can think about \u2013 but how can I stop myself from yawning?<\/p>\n<p>Provine tells me this often happens when people are talking to him; during presentations, he sometimes finds the majority of his audience with their mouths agape and tonsils swinging. Luckily, as a psychologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and author of Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond, he isn\u2019t offended. \u201cIt makes a very effective lecture,\u201d he says. \u201cYou talk and then the audience starts yawning. And then you can ask people to experiment on their yawns \u2013 like closing the lips, or inhaling through clenched teeth, or trying to yawn with the nose pinched closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20140811-warning-this-may-make-you-yawn\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Robson \u2014 BBC Future Mid-conversation with Robert Provine, I have a compelling urge, rising from deep inside my body. The more I try to quash it, the more it seems to spread, until it consumes my whole being. Eventually, it is all I can think about \u2013 but how can I stop myself from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64883,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions\/64883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}